[148] So say the people of Puno, but the island is all limestone.
[149] The name is more modern; given, as tradition relates, by one of the Incas, who happened to be encamped here when a chasqui or messenger arrived with extraordinary rapidity from Cuzco. The Inca exclaimed, "Tia-huanaco!" "Be seated, O Huanaco!"—the huanaco being the swiftest animal in Peru.
[150] The Hindoo god Siva is also represented with a necklace of human heads.
[151] For descriptions of the ruins at Cuzco, see my former work, Cuzco and Lima, chap. iv. and v.
[152] It is now introduced into our greenhouses.
[153] The lizard appears to have been a favourite device amongst the ancient Aymaras. There is also one carved on a block of stone amongst the ruins of Tiahuanaco.
[154] The idol of Copacabana was made of a beautiful blue stone, hence the name. It had an ugly human head, and a fish's body, and it was adored as the God of the Lake.
[155] Calancha.
[156] Facing the road on the mainland, between Juli and Pomata.
[157] He nominated Apu Inca Sucso, a grandson of the Inca Viracocha, as Governor; who was father of Apuchalco Yupanqui, the grandfather of Don Alonzo Viracocha Inca, and his brother Don Pablo, who governed the island of Titicaca, under the Spaniards, in A.D. 1621.