Appendix. 14^ 



The art of working it has been completely lost ; and though 

 imitations are made at the present time, and colored black, they 

 are very easily known from the ancient ones. The style of burial 

 and of pottery described is found along the coast at or near 

 Lima, at Pachacamac, and north at Trujillo and Pacasmayo. 



In the mountains behind, where the country was much 

 rougher and stone abounded, I found no pottery buried with the 

 dead, though this may be by no means general. Many of the 

 dead are buried in little niches built up in the rocks, of stone 

 and mud. Wherever there is a projecting rock, it is taken 

 advantage of, and hollows are dug out beneath it, where the 

 dead are stowed away. Up the Rimac River, above Lima, at 

 Chosica, and still further up, where the river valley narrows to a 

 mile or so in width, the mountain sides behind have been terraced 

 up for hundreds of feet with strong stone walls five and six feet 

 in height, while there are remains of ditches along the mountain 

 side, where the water has been brought from long distances above, 

 to irrigate these terraces. Besides the remains of burial places 

 in the rocks, in this locality, the ancient inhabitants seem to have 

 buried in and beneath their own houses. The village of Chosica 

 was built on a steep mountain side that was thickly covered with 

 boulders, some of them of great size. Among these they built 

 a town that must have been much like a great ants' nest. The 

 houses were very small, many of the rooms being six or seven 

 feet long by four or five wide — little cells, burrowed out from the 

 rocks, or built up out of them. They seem to have passed about 

 the town along the walls of the houses, which were probably, 

 from the remains, covered with corn stalks. They burrowed out 

 vaults beneath these houses, for the dead, and in some cases filled 

 them into the lower rooms. These lower vaults were usually 

 walled with boulders, and were covered with flat stones, that were 

 bound together and supported by other stones piled upon them 

 on the outside, while a large central flat stone seems to have 

 covered the main hole left for entrance. There were also, in 

 most or all cases, little holes a foot or more square, that opened 

 from the side into other vaults near. 



In these tombs the dead were found bundled up, as in the 

 others, and, standing up in one end, often to the number of 



