ACROSS UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA 
The spoons and knives which the Incas used were 
generally made of gold, with representations of heads 
attached to them. The average length of these articles 
was from two to four inches. 
I left the city on Friday, February sixteenth, going 
back the way I had come as far as the junction of 
Juliaca. 
The Cuzco Railway, to my mind, crosses the most 
beautiful and most interesting scenery of any railway 
I have ever seen. It is a pity that more English people 
do not travel by it. The great elevation makes people 
suffer from mountain-sickness, and that perhaps deters 
many travellers from attempting the journey. The rail¬ 
way has to contend with great natural difficulties — land¬ 
slides, which often stop traffic for days at a time, being 
frequent. 
From Cuzco I w T ent direct to Lake Titicaca, where 
more Inca ruins, such as the cylindrical towers of Silli- 
stayni, existed at Puno. Lake Titicaca is a heavenly sheet 
of water, situated at an elevation, by hypsometrical ap¬ 
paratus, of 12,202 feet. With its magnificent background 
of snowy peaks, the lake looked indeed too impressive 
for words, as I steamed across it in the excellent steamer 
of the Peruvian Corporation. 
Early in the morning of February seventeenth, hav¬ 
ing travelled the entire night in order to cross the lake 
from north to south, we arrived at Guaqui, the port for 
La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. Although I travelled 
in the most luxurious comfort, owing to the kindness of 
the Peruvian Corporation, the journey by rail and the 
going about examining the ruins at Cuzco had tired me 
considerably. My brain was so exhausted that it would 
really take in no more. 
Worse luck, when I reached La Paz it was during 
carnival time, when it was impossible to go out of the 
hotel without being smothered in corn-flour or chalk, and 
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