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...what the traveller was saying and doing. The Navy Department therefore obligingly ordered the cruiser Rochester to steam westward from Panama to the vicinity of Galapagos and thence relay the Maryland's rebounding messages to the big naval radio station at Balboa.* Notwithstanding this assistance, the Maryland found Andean ether conditions so bad that no messages could be sent for six hours one day. George Barr Baker, the chief Hoover censor and publicist, explained matters to the world's press when he could. The broadcast of Goodwill dropped from 16,000 words per day to about...
There is, on the Andean plateau in Peru, a standard-gauge railroad owned by an American mining company (Cerro de Pasco Copper Corp.) connecting their camps with the main line of the Central Railway of Peru at Oroya...
...Edward of Wales made his adieux to the Argentine at the ranch of Poloist Jack Nelson. A special train, preceded by a pilot train, whisked him 700 miles across the pampas to Mendoza. There the Prince changed to a special train of the Trans-Andean Railways, was drawn across the divide by two engines, arrived in the pleasant greenery of Santiago di Chili. He began at once to accomplish five gala days, spiced with Chilean ardor...
...Record of penalties imposed by order of the Circle of the Elders: (1) Gaka Iguantec, for failure to remove his neck-ornament during the morning service--two volumes of the Contours of Andean Stratification, to be read and reported in outline...
Professor Hiram Bingham, of Yale, will give an illustrated lecture on his recent descoveries in Peru in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The Yale Peruvian Expedition, of which Professor Bingham is the director, explored much hitherto unknown territory in the Andean region, and found several ruined Inca cities of great archaeological interest. The largest of these, "Machu Picchu," the most perfectly preserved Inca city known, was entirely excavated. The buildings were perched, upon the top of an almost inaccessible ridge, two thousand feet above the Urubamba River. In the excellence of its masonry, the daring...