Lost Treasures of the Iincas.Strange Traditions of Golden HoardsThe Lake of Urcos and Its Chain

of Solid Gold.Ninety MillionDollars' Worth of Gold GottenFrom Cuzco by the Spaniards.The Gold-Plated Temples ofthe Sun and Moon.The Mi¬raculous Gold of the Cathedraland the Lord of the Earth¬quakes.How a Baby BroughtIts Daddy Untold Wealth.The |Treasures of the Lake of theTwo Stones and That of the jGranite Giant Near Cuenca.An Indian Millionairess andHer Treacherous Lover.TheGold of the Mountains of Han-ganati.The Indian HunchbackWho Sold Himself to the Devil,nv FTIANIC o. CAllPKNTBII.

Urcos, Porn.

HAVE you ever hoard of Urcos? Ttis ft little mud town on the rail¬road between Cuzco and l.ake

Tltlcaca. It Is more than two nibsnbove the sen. high up In tlio Andes androt far from l.ake Urcos, In which are*n!d to he hurled treasures of the tiiasworth many millions. When the Span-lards, under 1'lzarro', lindj killed the lnasKing. Ataluiulpa, they marched uponCuzco. The Indians Know tholr greedfor tho precious metals, and they tookmost of their treasurers from tho cap-Itnl city nnd secret 1 y hurled them. Ac-cording to tradition, thoy threw mil-lions of dollars' worth of |?ohl Intothis lake, and with other things thegreat golden chain that rati aroundtheir main plaza. This plaza remainedIntact until .1 few years ago. It wasnhout 50(i feet long atid several huii-dred feet wide, ho that Uie length ofthe chain was prohahly between 1,000and 2,000 l'ent. The chain was purogold, wrought Into links about a footlong nnd as large around as tho wristof a mnn. Tho links wern so heavythat a ninn could not lilt move thanone of them at a time, and it Is saidihat hundreds of Indians wero required10 carry the chain. They took it uptho Vullev of Cu/.co and threw It Intoi ho lake." nnd thero It is supposed tolie to this day, although many havesearched for It In vain. The treasurehunters have dived l>n«» trie waters andclawed over the mud near the shore.Tbev have also dragged the lake withgrappling hooks, hut in places It Isexceedingly deep, and so far the trens-uro has not been discovered. At one

:in»« a syndicate was organized todrain the lake. This syndicate had acapital of $.">,000,000 and lis plan was Ito tunnel tho mountainside, Iiut thoj-ock was too tough and the enterprisewas abandoned.

The treasures of the Incas wore notconfined to Cuzco. i have heard stories jof hurled hoards all along the Andesfrom J'anama to l.ake Titlcaca. I heyhad vast quantities of golil and silverin Qtilto,. and at t'rrro tie I'asco Ifound a party of Americans and ltritishwho were prospecting for one of tlie.suhoards. They have already spent thou-Kinds of dollars, and are sinking more

every day. While I was before thevault of the Cuv.co Cathedral I was.shown a golden box weighing thirty-Is1n pounds, made ol the plates thatw< re torn trom the Inca Temple ol theSun. and was told that that cathedralwas largely built by Inca gold.

j understand that the treasures of.gold that wen stored on the holy Is-;lands of the Sun and the Moon werethrown Into I<ake Titlcaca, and I heatother traditions of the vast amountsof gold and silver the Spaniards failedto get. That which they obtained was

greater than the wealth of .< roesu;-.The amount taken from the temples ofCuzco alone Is said to have been worthm<-r< than $f>0,0"e.<l0t>1 nnd a part of thiswent to Cajatnaica to flee the IncaKrnperor Itahtialpa when lie .vas

treacherously Imprisoned hy 1'lr.arro.The Inea Kmporor had come In friend¬ship. H*> was carried to Cajamarca inrt litter of massive gold covered wlih, ](>!h etnb oldered with the plume:- o'.iroplcnl hiriis. This cloth was studdedwith gold and sliver plates. Ataliual-pn's hair was decorated with gold. Ile|had on a golden crown, and around hisjie. k was a collar of emeralds.

\t the start 1'lzarro treated Ata-hualpa well, htit a little later on

charged hint with treachery, and puthim In a prison about fourteen^ ^eet^square. The Inca King tool: a.'*siifneiujd scratched a mark on the wall as

high up as he could reach, tellingJ-Mzarrn that he would fill the room tothat hflght with gold It he could onl>be free. This proposition was accept¬ed. and gold In the shape of vases,utensils and plates was brought infrom all parts of the empire. It wasjnelted down by the Indians under thedirection of the Spaniards. When thej>rls"ii room waa tilled to above themark made by Atahualpu. ho was te-

leased. Hut he was still kept undersurveillance, and a little later was ac¬cused of plotting against tho Span-lards. Ho was given a mock trial, andwns condemned to he burned, his exe¬cution being brought about largely byFriar Valverde, who was afterwardmade T'.ishop of Cuzco.During my stay in Cuzco I visited

the Temple of the Sun, upon whosefoundations now stand the church andconvent of the r»omlnleai.s. This waskojiwn l«y the Incas as "The Ouican-chn." or the "place of gold." It wasrectanculnr on three sides, with a

great oval at the hack, and its wallswere two stories high anil altogetherabout 1,20" feet l-ng. These wallswere surrounded by a thick eornici orborder of gold about eight inches wide,and where the wall Joined tho roofthero was a broad golden hand. 1 h©roof was covered with gold, and thoInner walls of the temple were liter¬ally plated with It. vegetables andvines of all sorts being engraved uponthem.Opposite the entrance to tin; temple

was a mighty plate solid gold,heavily Incrustcd with emeralds andprt nous stones. This j i.ted a

hu/nan face ^ irrounded wit a rays. Itwas the lina- of t s in whom theIncas worshiped, tin') iivd gold indoing so. They considered tl.i t metalsacrcd to the sun, and often r« ferrodto ;t a.< the tears of that heavenly boily.On hoth sides of the iu.a::e were tineuibalmed bodies of the it as of :,.epnst, each seated on a chnlr of tolldgold.

]n addition to the 'IV.nj le of the .v hi.the incas had temples t the st:..tnoon. The traditions say thatwero chapels to these heavenly t ...

In the great temple at <'uzco, and it :whispered that evidence.-- of :h<-. h.tvirecently been discovered. When I v\ en-through the church my guide w.us i.oipermitted to go with m« Tiio holyfather in charge performed dutyhimself, and the guide thought that it¦was to prevent me from leari. ng whatthey )iad recently discovered.

All of tho ornaments and utensils de¬voted to the religion of the It i- wereJnado of gold or silver. In J:,«. j- athall of tho sun thero wen . Mi-n#;wers which held the water, us* o at thetlm© of the sacrlllces; and there w- tc.twolvo silver Jars lllled with Indian

Tlie I»oril iif the ICurthqunk e.«. A iiriwcHrtlon In Ciimmi.TIu» flKiirc l« filNtrilfi) to mc c rnsn liy Rrnil iihIIn of .solidKolit. The Hkirt 1* Im-riiKf oil with illntiiomln. Tin* ontlu--ilrnl vrns Imllt l»y nn Im-n hoard.

\Mother trrnmirc Mory Ik tli nt of nn Inilliiu vtoiiiiiii KIOjrnrN olil.

I vlnKril the Temple of Ihr Son, known n« the rorlcnn-t'lui, or pnlnrr of Koltl. TIiIk Ii iu vrnltn 1,201) fret loop, n llhII ciililrn I'llrn Ice i>l|;lit lnrlirn ivlilp. Thp founihilion of theI'lillilliiK nIiouii In Die iiletti re mil n jinrt of flir originalMrueltiru.

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5IITCII OK TIIR IXC"A CiO!,I> WAS ItrrilKl) IX I.AKR TITIfACA.

corn. There was a golden llama witha golden fleece; and also golden birdsanil golden (lowers, all of life size.Tho Spaniards found a vast amount

of gold in the cemeteries of the J nous,Somo of thoso inonarehs, after death,had their royal bowls tilled with gold.(Sold was burled with thorn. There Isa record that one Garcia Gultorres pal<lone-fifth of the treasures he found in(ho graveyards at Trujillo to tIk- Span¬ish crown. This was only 20 per centof (ho whole, and It shows that hisdiscoveries netted him «IT7. castei-liuios of (hat precious metal. They arenow finding Bold in the esc.t vationsbeing made at Teohuanaco. and thatin (he shape of gold and silver platestacked to tho heads of mumnitos andskulls.

The building of the great graniterathedral in Ouzeo, which stands ontin? pin ....a near (tie ardent site of oneof the Jura palaces, was brought aboutby the discovery of an Jnca treasure.lis origin was in a miraculous dreamoC (ho bishop, tn this dream thewrgin Mary appeared before the.bishop. and told him that she wanteda cathedral In Cu/.co. She fixed (lielocation on the ancient plaza of thoIncas, and described the grand build¬ing as ii now Is. Tho bishop repliedthat his people were poor, thn( ho hadno money, and that he could not pos-slbly raise (lie sum needed. Thereupon(ho Madonna directed him to ifo to aplace near I'ustco and dir.. There hewould uncoxer some of (he lost trea¬sures of the Incas. This was duly re¬ported to (he people, and, as the storyroes, they went with tho ]>lshop In agroat procession lo the place destg-liated. They dug down Into the enjlh,and (hem found a large stone of gold.I( was wi(h this gold that they beganthe cathedral which, although herefar off from the sea, and between thewalls of tho Andes, is one of thefinest churches of tho Now World.

I have already described tho Ca-thoflr.'il of Cu/eo. All told, it Is per¬haps morn gorgeous than was Cor!-eaneini, tho Jnca Temple of (ho Sun.it is a vast museum of gold carvingsand beautiful paintings, one of Itstreasures is a life-sized fliruro of theChrist fastened to a wooden cross bygreat nails of solid gold The figureis decorated with Jewels, and tho ped¬estal or car upon which (ho cross:- tanils Is plated with silver and lu-crusted with <ilamonds.This image Is greatly revered by the

lndir.i:s and alno by the othei peopleof ('uzco. Tliey carry ti aroundthrough tho streets on ilood Monday,at which time they kneel down on thesidewalks and pray before It. Theycall i( the Lord of tho Karthquakos.and believe that their fit y Is safefrom seismic disturbances as long astho annual procession takes place.This comes from a tradition that theChi i t wa? once left in tin church be-yoml the hour usually set for the pro-c«-.--: ion, when the mountains began to!wway, ai d an earthquake occuredw! ;. ii i: was thought would swallowthe *'i( > Thereupon the Christ was'Inc..g!it out and (lie earth ceased itsqu:ikingA >.< .' r story of lost treasure re-

lat- t'i a i'hzi.'o white man of Spanibhdi-.' lit whom the Kord blessed withniii .erou children. i( is the customhere tha( a godf.idior shall look after.. in: pro\ <le Jut" his godchild; and so,as this man was poor, he tried to addto iiis resource!? by getting a corpslof hi od godfathers. So as tho infantsf air." one after another he named each jIn honor of orio of the distinguishedcitizens of the (own. -The citizens,however, did liot respond, and the man.rf'iv poorer and poorer. At last lie.r I had nine babies, each of whom hadI.rci given rich godf'ither, i>u( (herev. a s :.> help forthcoming. The father!wore that h^ would leave the rich

and chose aii/lhu imtron of hla next '

oiltId the first man ho met on tho streetafter !ts birth. In duo tlmo the storkon me again, And the man, rushing out,saw a poor Indian driving: a caravan

of llamas Into the town. He stoppedhi in and told 111 in he wanted him to hegodfather to his child. Tho Indianobjected, saying that ho wrs poor nnilnot (It to he godfather to a white child.The man then told of his vow anddually persuaded the Indian to acceptthe position.

In duo time the baby was baptizedand tho Indian appeared at the cere¬mony as lis godfather. Tlo kissed Idagodson as he left the church and thein \'< day ...line hack Into t'u/.' o with us. ore ef llamas, loaded with wood. Iftttoo!: thl'i wood to the father of Illsgodchild, saving that ho had broughtwin*.I ln» could and that he must ac¬cept the wood as a gift. The man wasthanked and the wood was duly storedaway in the court of tho house. Sometime after that tlie bundles of sticksanil roots were opened, and Inside eachwas found a great Iwr of gold In nng-

is ami dust. in the meantime, theIndian had disappeared, and could notl>e found. The man took the gold andbuilt two large houses on tho strooicalb d Triumph. If you do not believethis; story come to Cti7.co, and tho peo¬ple will show you the street anil pointout the houses.Another treasure story Is tho tale of

an Indian woman 100 years old. It re-lates to a great hoard of gold thatwas hidden In tho Amies by one ofthe chiefs, who was murdered beforeho came hack to Cuzoo. This treasurehas low? been searched for In vain byboth foreigners and Peruvians. Xotlong ago this old Indian woman, be¬ing about to die, sent word to a haei-endado of Spanish decent for whomshe had worked, asking hint t<> hastento her. llo reached lier hut in themountains Just In time to get her lastmessage. This was that her maternalgrandmother, who had died eightyyears before, bad given her a wordthat would Indicate where this troaa-urn lay. The word was an Indianone and it meant the T,ake of tho TwoStones. Tho old woman was ones-lionet!, but she would toll nothingmore. That night she filed. Tin storywent forth and the whole country wassearched by treasure hunters, all s-ek-ing for the l.ako of Two Stones. Atlast a narrow valley was discoveredcontaining a lake In which there weretwo tall rocks rising: high over thewater. Tho Investigators drained thelake. They dug down tinder the larg¬est .stone and there found a platformof masonry, covering a chamber inwhich tho treasure was found. Thoso' ret was kept from tho officials forfear of confiscation. And so no oneknows just how much gold was dis¬covered, but it was of such great valuethat It made all of those who partici¬pated in the division rich.

Another of those Inoa traditions re¬lates to a cave In a mountain calledPillchau, near Cuenea, in Kcuador.This cave contains a mighty«.treasureof gold, but Its cntranco is closed bya giant of granite under whoso arm isa hole which is open only once a year,and that on _»!ood Friday. Then, andthen only, the giant raises his arm andthe man who can be there at thattime can crawl In under it and got anImmense treasure of gold. As tho storygoes, the gold is in piles so labeledthat only one pile is to bo taken ata time. If one man takes only theassigned quantity lie .will got awaysafely. l>ut if ho is greedy and takesmore ho will ho squeezed to deathby the arm of the giant as lie goesout. This is tho belief hold by tho In¬dians. Many superstitious people havelooked for that cave, but so far neitherthe cave nor tho giant has yet beendiscovered.

A fairly well authenticated traditionrefers to an Inca named Kuminagui,w ho is said to have carried away tho

gold anl silver of Quito and burledthorn. Those treasures wcro takenfrom ill'- palaces of Atahualpa andfrom lho temples and convents of thevlrglm of tho sun at that place. KIs said that Riitno of tho 14 o 1«I was.started to «':lja:i>area In order that It

i might iilil In freeing Atahualpa, hutf that Uumin.'igul feared the treacheryof tlie Sapni.il'is and burled the »1«!on the way. This story came t«. theSpaniards', and Sebastian <le }'.otialcaza r,one of tho subordinate uflleors underI'lzarro, took 1!>0 men and started forQuito, searching ah ll path <>fllumina^ul, hut litidiim nothing.

In the meantime Kuminagui had dugtraps in t h*«- trails ;.irl made maresto destroy the enemy and their ln>rs«lie also set timto Quito ami killed thevirgins of tho sun hrforo l'.enah-.'V.arappeared, lie tin :i climbed t<> the hi:thmountain behind the city, where 1"was finally taken by Hei.alcazar. liewas tortured to death to make himt. -1! whero the golden hoard was .*...

creted, but ho showed no sign <>f weak¬ness. and the kmuvb of the location

'of the treasure died with him.

There Is a story told in Cu/.o «>f :*nIndian girl who was in love with aSpaniard. The Spaniard h id taken ad¬vantage <>f her affection, but he wouldnot make her a proposal of marrlauountil she told him that she could makehim the richest man in 1'eru. liethereupon promised to marry her ifshe would prove that she could <h> whatshe proposed, and at her request wentwith her one night into the mountains.There he was blindfolded ami ledthrough ravine after ravino until hollnally came to a cave. Here thobandages were taken off his eyes andhis sweetheart said:

"Heboid! There is the gold that 1am ready t<i give you when wo aremarried."The Spaniard looked down and saw

a great jille of golden bars and a col¬lection of golden vessels curiouslycarved. It is .supposed that they werefrom the treasures f>f Atahualpa. Thegreedy man attempted to sei/.o some <¦ fthe largiest piece's nearest him, but thogirl pulled him back, saying: "Thosethi;j£rs are sacred until we are wedded,and if you attempt to touch any ofthem or take away any, my friends,who are hero at hand, will certainlykill you."

Tiie girl was so earnest the Spaniardgrew scared, lie threw down the gold

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The hind of tudinn who hurried thi-(rrn.nirr. The mini In a ((uii'liiilt. n de-Mvendnut of the slnvr* of I >. «> Ihi jim.

anil submitted nR.iin to he blindfolded.When he returned to Onsen ho Informedthe authorities, and an order was is¬sued for tit" arrest of the ^irl. Theofficers went to her Inn. hut tiiey foundthat she and all the res' of tlio fam¬ily had left for the mountains. Andthat w;»s the last of the treasure.

There :<<-f records left hv thf> Span¬iard;; describing several localitieswhere they think some of these !n<"»treasures may !>.' found. One of these-i 11. chapter of t?o- "1 >. rretero" of Y.tl-vorde. Valverde died in .Spain, after

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having returned from tho mountains ofI.langanat I. In Ketiador. Ho was knownto have k"no many times into thomountains, anil to have brought out ngreat quantity or gold, whoso char-iirlors sIiowmI !t to bo a part of thotreasures of Atahualpa.Upon dying Ynlvcrdo loft directions

giving the routo to whore tho gold lay,ami tho King of Spain nont this de¬scription to Anihato. a town now ontho railroad between the roast nmlQuito, ami ordered the oflicers tlioroto search for the treasure. I under¬stand that tho manuscript of tiio King'sletter Is still on record. I abbreviatetlx- description: It tolls the searcher forthe treasure to stand on tho mountainof t iuapa, with his bncls to Asnbato,and look to the cant. From there liewill see three mountains In tho form ofa triangle surrounding an nrtitlolallake, into which the ancients, whenthey hoard of tho de.'tth of the lnranKing, threw tho goi<l they hail pre¬pared for his ransom. The Spanish dl-roctions then show one Just how to

got there, and tho dangers ho Is liableto Incur on the way. By following themho will finally como Into a bog filledwith grains of gold that can bo washedout In a stream near-by, and stillfarther 011 is a certain cavo where was

the furnaco through which tho Indiansmelted their ores. This 1b on tho left-hand Bide of the'mountain. Tho direc¬tions aro quite Intricate, and no farno one lias yet found the treiilauro.

Returning again to the treasures ofAtahualpa, burled by Riiinlnngul, therowaa an Indian boy named Cat una, tho

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with his father at tho time the hoardwas secreted. This boy was Injured Inone of tho battles and was supposed t<>bo dead. Ilo was taken up by one ofthe Spaniards, and he recovered, lit*Injuries were ho severe, however, thathis features woro distorted and ho bo-camo a hunchback. The Spaniard whoadopted him, as it were, was a Cap¬tain Suarez. lie taught him to readand write, and made him a Christian.He treated the Indian boy ho well thathe came t<> love him. and his htart wastilled with gratitude.

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