Word: caving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 up, so as to be airtight; and when I succeeded in forcing an entrance; a tremendous puff of noxious gas burst out, asphyxiating me instantly...
...scrambled up again, and found the cave by this time safe for entrance. I went in, and when my eyes had become accustomed, to the darkness, they were met with an astonishing sight. Standing in the centre of the spacious rockchamber were five motionless figures, hooded and masked, and shrouded from head to foot in startling pink garments. (Pink was the color of purity among the ancient Incas, doubtless because it is the color most rarely found in nature.) Kneeling at the feet of each of these standing figures, but clad in less distinctive garments, were other figures...
...Inca realm, where moon-worship was particularly rampant. The appeal for membership was made largely on romantic grounds, by hints that each man would take part in a great crusade, and no doubt the mysterious rites of initiation--of which I found a horrible example in the cave--and the unusual costumes of membership, had an attraction for susceptible youths...
...things had worked according to schedule the time poor old Louis had the disagreement with his subjects, the Jacquerie would not have had arms. And I suppose the first Paleolithic genius who slung a rook with a twisted grass rope had no idea that the gentleman in the adjoining cave would get wise to the trick. No; we should not delude ourselves. We must grow accustomed to the military plagiarism of the "insurgents"; they have no sense of honor--never having attended Harvard--and we must prepare ourselves to accept with calm dignity the news of bombs dropped from...
...complete program follows: Overture: "Fingal's Cave" Mendelssohn Cello Solo Mr. K. V. A. Forbes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite Gluck (a) Aria from "Orpheus (b) Musette from "Armide" Valse Triste Sibelius Hungarian March from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz