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CtlZéO: msit'ORICAL A~
CITY OF PERU - ' -
dis·wppeared. ~ll the wlwle nsfon of the wm be f>olind
many remains of buildiu,gis walls. As ncaic custom
that all front one anothoer herefo'l:e leads one to believe that
Ppi,sacc was al1So a fort. The present imhabitants are not eJto–
gether prim.itive.
One of the trails seen from the heiighw lea1dis to Paucartambo,
in whose va.lleys lived the fe1•ocious tribes of Amaru-Mayu.
Froim t!he same heights of Intihuatana oean be seen a slope
leading to the ancient population. De cending about 100 mete-rs
and turning towardis the •lef•t a short distance i.t is int6'1'es•tiwg to
see two Incaic portaLs, on each of whicJi is a cy~indrical cutting
in the stone, evidently for the p acing a bar <>f timber
(or per~aps of stone) for thei.r . 'These po1itals ha/Ve
been viewe by v·ery few visitors ·ÍS essary to have a guide
to poin.t t 1 t . In Ppii$a..cc lives a· señor Cantero wh<> is
familiar wit.Q thes ruins ia.1 ·d who discovered part of them. It is
th e gen,era1 opinion füat 011 part of ln'1i'.ihu::iJtana wns an astro~o·
mica! observ¡;i. Q.C;..y the ¡remain•der a fort - this latter bel·ief
owing to ~ str-a e pos'ition for (le.fense. It is un·dou•bted t11at
the primitive tribe re sur'rounded by quarrelsome neighbours,
they themseGv•es being .co11quer~1'1s.
Yucai. - Th e .saicred vaJfoy of the VHca111ota, where the !neas
had their summer pa>lace, and which formerly in the ean·ly year~
of the coruquest formecl the Ma.rquisabe of Oropeza, i~1herited by
the Inca Sairi Thúpacc, is a veritable 'Parad·ise. In the who~e
world, according to Markha,m, ih·ere is not to be fourud a place to
compare with the sa.cred val1ey of the Incas. It lies two kilo–
m01ters füe>m the beaiutiful town of Unl!hamba, and thirty frooi
Ppisacc. Ppisacc is r ea.lly a pa1't of what wws known as Yucai ~n
the time of t he Incas. From the river aiscen.ding the moullltam
towa rds Chinchero wi11 b e seen the trail •by which the Litera. (or
"Usa1u ") of the In ca. de ciended with his
In the plaza is a smalU wal~ adjoining se (sai.d to
the Incas) with inclosures simHar to those <>f Chinehero
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