Word: chita
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...Republic's territory to guard Japanese interests and incidentally for the good of the Siberians,--the delegates intimate it is for all their goods. In any case, when the Japanese withdrew from their more advanced posts they established a remarkable neutral zone into which they might advance if the Chita troops could not stop them but which no Siberian soldier was to enter on any account. This was the situation at the beginning of the Darien conference which was to discuss the terms of Japanese withdrawal...
...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...
When we entered Chita, we were received with enthusiasm by the native peons; and their local administrative officer, stepping from a nearby boteca, offered us the freedom of the city, which we proceeded to take. The next day, owing to unfortunate indiscretions in diet, two of our members suffered from acute attacks of enteritis and gastritis; while a third, Dr. Bonaparte, had the misfortune to contract amoebic dysentery, which made him unable to proceed. It was decided, under the circumstances, to send the chief topographer and one of his assistants ahead to reconnoitre. Their only clues were a few vague...
...advance guard's difficulties on the way, and the Crusonian adventures they experienced, I must omit from this letter. They have just rejoined us here at Chita, with careful maps of the route they took and the discoveries they made. It will now be a simple matter for the whole expedition, now in good health, to make its way up the Urubamba Valley...
...Chita, Peru, October...