Note 367 — Chapter LXX

These are the ruins of a fortress defended by the Chimu against the army of the Yncas, the outer walls being three hundred yards long by two hundred. The interior is divided into small houses, separated by lanes. It is partly covered with a kind of plaster, on which Proctor saw the uncouth coloured representations of birds and beasts mentioned in the text. The ruined fortress stands at the extremity of a plain, close to the foot of some rugged mountains, about a league from the sea. Paz Soldan: Proctor, p. 175.