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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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more than one tumble. The greatestcare was taken to avoid dwellings, and a secluded spotselected for the operation. The medicine-man repeated theformula of the afternoon and sprinkled wine and afterwardbrandy in the direction of each of the five Achachilas named,saying: All thy presents I have now brought. With this,he counted out the twenty balls one by one, each beingcounted as a quintal, or hundredweight,^*^ and adding:Thou hast to give me with all thy heart. Then a firewas built, and the twenty balls were placed on it. Manuelthrew into the flames a substance which he refused to showus and which caused the fire to spit and to crackle. At thissound everybody had to run off a short distance while heexclaimed: The Achachilas are eating! After the fire hadgone out he returned to the place and covered it with stones.Then he went with the two larger balls to another spot anddug a hole, saying: The virgin earth is now invited, here is rd O ^ o W cS 1—1 0) X M X 3 H p H =4-J < -C ,£1
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THE INDIANS OF THE ISLAND OF TITICACA 99 thy burial of treasure, *^^ and placed both balls into thehole. * The very things of the Inca thou hast to bring forth.Now, with thy permission we will take leave. Forgive me.With this the performance was at an end and we groped ourway back, over the steep and wet rocks, without a single staron the dark firmament. By midnight we were home again,bruised and tired, and the next morning, the Indians, satis-fied that we had the Achachilas in our favor, went towork, convinced that the yield would be abundant. Never-theless at noon on the following day, while our laborers tooka recess for lunch, another medicine-man among them pouredout wine and alcohol in the direction of the five Achachilas,after each one of the laborers had taken a pinch of coca, andsaid: Achachila, do not make me suffer much work, we arethose who work under pay; to this viracocha thou hast toreturn what he paid to us, for this thou art beckoned (in-vited). If an Indian is offered

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