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With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition, near Machu-Pleehu, Peru, October...
With the University of Nueva Barcelona, Peruvian Expedition...
...which is the narrow ridge whereon Machu Picchu is situated, might be a rich field for explorers and regretted that he had not the resources to continue his excavations. The interruption of the war, however, prevented any such work being undertaken till this fall when the University of Nueva Barcelona, a Chilean institution of considerable antiquity, sent out a well equipped expedition of which Mr. John Blair-Duncan (Honorary) '03 F.S. was a loading member. Since leaving college he has had wide experience as an explorer...
...arrived in Chita, Peru, our preliminary base, on September 13. Our company consisted of the following members: Senor Alvarotez, professor of Archaeology at Nueva Barcelona, our leader and supervisor, "guide, counsellor, and friend"; Don Calvo, as geologist, (Whose work in stratifying the cliffs of the Anacondian Peninsula has made him world-famous); Dr. Bonaparte (exchange professor from the Sorbonne) who serves as osteologist and physician; Leon Cavallo, our chief topographer; two assistant topographers; and myself, who am to act as historian and representative of the American government...
With the University of Nueva Barcelona Peruvian Expedition...