Word: cliffe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. When I recovered...
...rocks stacked haphazard at the foot of a broad ramp which led up the slope to the site of the university. We were long in a quandary about their significance, but by means of various records unearthed in the city above, or cut in the rocky faces of the cliff (details of which I must spare you), Senor Alvarotez has deduced this astonishing explanation...
...unfortunate development was noted. Little by little, the students were beginning to neglect their books and gather on the cliff-tops to watch the progress of the sport. In fact the playing of the game was left to a chosen few, while all the others gathered round to watch. Interest in the contests became intense; teams of Roloists were formed, and the students divided in heated rivalry. It is even recorded that Rolo experts from distant lands came to compete with the Incamen, and that the whole nation became fevered with enthusiasm for the game...
...original purpose of the game, to carry up building materials, had been long since forgotten, in fact a new form of the sport had to be invented to roll the rocks down again. The spectators increased prodigiously in numbers. Railings were built along the cliff-tops, and places allotted on payment of a substantial sum. Tickets were soon at a premium; these, let me add, were the small bone chips which we have gathered in large numbers from the ruins. In time, the income from this source alone was sufficient to maintain the whole institution...
Gebelein, E. G., 6 Cliff Road, Welleslay Hills...