

OHAPTEE XIV. 



OK THE PEOVINCE OF IMBABUKA, AKD THE FIRST ASCEN'T 

 OF COTOCACHI. 



Upon" the 21st of April we left Cayambe, and crossed the depres- 

 sion between Mojanda and Imbabnra to the village of Otovalo ; ^ 

 having two objects in view — an ascent of Cotocachi, and collection 

 of Antiquities in the district which has been in the past, and is 

 still, the most densely populated in Ecuador. 



I went to that country possessed with the notion that there 

 must have been an Equatorial '^ Stone Age/'^ though without 

 positive information that stone implements could be found ; or 

 knowing whether during Incarial times weapons and implements 

 of stone were in common use. Having nothing to shew, for a 



1 There was a fair track all the way, and from the Lake of St. Pablo to Otovalo 

 there was a respectable road. 



