Identifier: islandsoftiticac00band (find matches)
Title: The islands of Titicaca and Koati, illustrated
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914
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Publisher: New York, Hispanic Society of America
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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some domesticfowl, many donkeys, and occasionally a diminutive mule. Ahorse is sometimes seen. Sheep exist in large flocks.Vicious and powerful bulls are used for ploughing with thepreadamite plough, and even the master, much more thestranger, is not safe from these savage and treacherousbrutes. The cows are ill fed and uncared for; but still theygive milk, which is converted into a very fair cheese andsent to Puno. A sporadic cat, few rats and mice, somevery familiar swine, a few ducks and geese, and a veryill-natured turkey, together with the guinea-pig (called inBolivia rabbit—co^ejo, and in Peru cuy), constituted,during our stay on the Island, the remainder of domesticatedanimals. As Pediculus vestimenti to the Indians garb, andcapitis to his hair, so is the guinea-pig to the Indianskitchen. These extremely reproductive animals render ex-istence in a cooking-place desperately lively for the unac- Plate XII Manuel Mamani, one of the leading medicine-men (Layka)on Titicaca Island
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THE ISLANDS OF TITICACA AND KOATI 53 customed visitor. Sleep in such a place, with the many-hued, rat-footed, and tailless rodents bustling about andchattering with their teeth, is impossible, unless one is extra-ordinarily tired. Although there is an abundance of water-fowl, ducks in-cluded, on and about the Island of Titicaca, the Indian doesnot take advantage of it as a supply of meat; but he fre-quently hunts for the eggs. The yolk is green and the tastedecidedly fishy and unpalatable; but the Indian relishessuch food. It is chiefly on the small islands near the north-western extremity of Titicaca that thousands of birds roost,and thither the Indian goes in his balsa, returning some-times with a full load of eggs and also of young birds.These Islands (see map) are six in number, the smallest ofwhich is Chuju, and the largest Kochi, or Kuji-huata.Lauassani, which is the most eastern, is low and flat and hasat its eastern extremity a still lower extension, which fea-ture has given r

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