clearing.  Densely wooded slopes rose on all sides.  The manager requested two of the Indian tenants to act as guides.  With them, we plunged into the thick jungle and spent a long and fatiguing day searching in vain for ruins.  That night the manager returned to Huadquina, but Professor Foote and I preferred to remain in Ccllumayu and prosecute a more vigorous search on the next day.  We shared a little thatched hut with our Indian hosts and a score of fat cuys (guinea pigs), the chief source of the Ccllumayu meat supply.  The hut was built of rough wattles which admitted plenty of fresh air and gave us comfortable ventilation.  Primitive little sleeping-platforms, also of wattles, constructed for the needs of short, stocky Indians, kept us from being overrun by inquisitive cuys, but could hardly be called as comfortable as our own folding cots which we had left at Huadquina.

The next day our guides were able to point out in the woods a few piles of stones, the foundations of oval or circular huts which probably were built by some primitive savage tribe in prehistoric times.  Nothing further could be found here of ruins, “important” or otherwise, although we spent three days at Ccllumayu.  Such was our first disillusionment.

On our return to Huadquina, we learned that the trail to Yurak Rumi would be ready “in a day or two.”  In the meantime our hosts became much interested in Professor Foote’s collection of insects.  They brought an unnamed scorpion and informed us that an orange orchard surrounded by high walls in a secluded place back of the house was “a great place for spiders.”  We found that their statement was not exaggerated and immediately engaged in an enthusiastic spider hunt.  When these Huadquina spiders were studied at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zooelogy, Dr. Chamberlain found among them the representatives of four new genera and nineteen species hitherto unknown to science.  As a reward of merit, he gave Professor Foote’s name to the scorpion!

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Ruins of Yurak Rumi near Huadquina.  Probably an Inca Storehouse, well ventilated and well drained.  Drawn by A. H. Bumstead from measurements and photographs by Hiram Bingham and H. W. Foote. ------

Finally the trail to Yurak Rumi was reported finished.  It was with feelings of keen anticipation that I started out with the foreman to see those ruins which he had just revisited and now declared were “better than those of Ollantaytambo.”  It was to be presumed that in the pride of discovery he might have exaggerated their importance.  Still it never entered my head what I was actually to find.  After several hours spent in clearing away the dense forest growth which surrounded the walls I learned that this Yurak Rumi consisted of the ruins of a single little rectangular Inca storehouse.  No effort had been made at beauty of construction.  The walls were of rough, unfashioned stones laid in clay.  The building was without a doorway, although it had several