Note 490 — Chapter C

The most remarkable of these tower tombs of the Collao are at a place called Sillustani, on a promontory running out into the lake of Umayu, near Puno. This promontory is literally covered with places of sepulture. Four of them are towers of finely cut masonry, with the sides of the stones dovetailing into each other. See a full description of them in my Travels in Peru and India, p. 111; also Vigne’s Travels in South America, ii, p. 31; and Antiguedades Peruanas, p. 293.