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Baragwanath's two biggest adventures were finding some Inca treasure and buying a salted mine that cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...
...IMMENSE SUN-Blair Niles- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Historical romance set in 16th Century Peru. Author Niles, who spent two years on the scene absorbing local color, researching into Inca lore, turns out a monument to industry, if not artistry...
...knowledge of native ways acquired in two centuries of conquest. More impressive for its sweeping interpretations than for brilliant descriptions or picturesque details, The Spanish Main nevertheless contains several compact narratives that readers are likely to find unfamiliar. One of these deals with the desperate race to find the Inca Empire, whose fame had spread through South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot...
...dust procedure. Mr. Mitchell insists, too categorically for such cautious Americanists as Philip Means (Ancient Civilization of the Andes'), that wandering Polynesians or Chinese, in search of "life-givers" such as gold, landed somewhere along the coasts of South or Central America to bring culture to the Aztec, Inca and Maya Indians of the New World. He seeks to clinch his point by comparing Mayan architecture and sculpture with the buildings and statues of Egypt, Babylonia, India and Angkor-Vat in French Indo-China. The Mayas of what are now Guatemala, British Honduras and Yucatan, he says, could never...
...Mitchell lays about him with such infectious vigor that one almost forgets that other archeologists who are interested in the cultures of pre-Columbian America are still agnostic about the origins of the Inca, Aztec and Maya Indian civilizations. And if one looks at a map of the world, one is struck by the vast distances between outposts of Polynesia and America, between Easter Island and Chile, between the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico. Could Polynesians or Chinese, in their small boats or canoes, have traversed such forbidding stretches of water to bring a god of Egyptian origin to Yucatan...