small windows and a series of ventilating shafts under the house.  The lintels of the windows and of the small apertures leading into the subterranean shafts were of stone.  There were no windows on the sunny north side or on the ends, but there were four on the south side through which it would have been possible to secure access to the stores of maize, potatoes, or other provisions placed here for safe-keeping.  It will be recalled that the Incas maintained an extensive system of public storehouses, not only in the centers of population, but also at strategic points on the principal trails.  Yurak Rumi is on top of the ridge between the Salcantay and Huadquina valleys, probably on an ancient road which crossed the province of Uilcapampa.  As such it was interesting; but to compare it with Ollantaytambo, as the foreman had done, was to liken a cottage to a palace or a mouse to an elephant.  It seems incredible that anybody having actually seen both places could have thought for a moment that one was “as good as the other.”  To be sure, the foreman was not a trained observer and his interest in Inca buildings was probably of the slightest.  Yet the ruins of Ollantaytambo are so well known and so impressive that even the most casual traveler is struck by them and the natives themselves are enormously proud of them.  The real cause of the foreman’s inaccuracy was probably his desire to please.  To give an answer which will satisfy the questioner is a common trait in Peru as well as in many other parts of the world.  Anyhow, the lessons of the past few days were not lost on us.  We now understood the skepticism which had prevailed regarding Lizarraga’s discoveries.  It is small wonder that the occasional stories about Machu Picchu which had drifted into Cuzco had never elicited any enthusiasm nor even provoked investigation on the part of those professors and students in the University of Cuzco who were interested in visiting the remains of Inca civilization.  They knew only too well the fondness of their countrymen for exaggeration and their inability to report facts accurately.

Obviously, we had not yet found Uiticos.  So, bidding farewell to Senora Carmen, we crossed the Urubamba on the bridge of Colpani and proceeded down the valley past the mouth of the Lucumayo and the road from Panticalla, to the hamlet of Chauillay, where the Urubamba is joined by the Vilcabamba River. [11] Both rivers are restricted here to narrow gorges, through which their waters rush and roar on their way to the lower valley.  A few rods from Chauillay was a fine bridge.  The natives call it Chuquichaca!  Steel and iron have superseded the old suspension bridge of huge cables made of vegetable fiber, with its narrow roadway of wattles supported by a network of vines.  Yet here it was that in 1572 the military force sent by the viceroy, Francisco de Toledo, under the command of General Martin Hurtado and Captain Garcia, found the forces of the young Inca drawn up