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Public lectures given included those by Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University, on "The Nation and its Health". Professor W.M. Davis '69, of the University, on "Lessons from the Grand Canyon"; Professor E.B. Wilson of Columbia University, on "The Physical Basis of Life"; and Mr. C.W. Rice, secretary of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering Developments in South America...
...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped...
...departed form Chita on the day following the return of Cavallo his assistant. The stories which they had to tell of their find near Machu Picchu made us eager to see the site ourselves. I shall pass over our Journey up the Urubamab canyon, and our discoveries at the foot of the mountain, interesting though they are, until our specialist, Don Calvo, has made fuller reports. Our ascent was made with some difficulty largely because of the debris of centuries...
...significance of this discovery. Suffice it to say that the city of Machu Picchu was believed to have been the cradle of the ancient Inca empire, Tampu-Tocco, or "Window-Tavern". What is of most interest to us is that Dr. Bingham, at that time, conjectured that the Urubamba canyon, near 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...
...novel of the Western out-doors with its crucial scenes staged in the Grand Canyon...