Word: incase
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dr. McGovern, recently returned from a trip in the unknown hinterland of the Amazon basin, after uncovering traces of civilization antidating that of the ancient Incas by hundreds of years.
William Montgomery McGovern, explorer: "I landed at Boston last week and immediately told the rocking-chair voyagers there the same tales of jungleering that I told last summer upon emerging from the Amazon hinterland (TIME, July 5). I told of civilizations antedating the Incas, of a human race so low...
A glittering new houseboat rode majestically on the head waters of the Amazon. On the deck stood a missionary, his wife, and their little South American Indian princess. On the tropic shore, all the little Incas went "Inck, inck, inck," danced with joy to see the long-awaited galleon. Some...
Mayas Superior to Incas
It seems fair to give the Mayas the palm for culture existing in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans A comparison with the Incas presents some difficulties, but as Dr. Spinden points out. "The Peruvians had no system of hieroglyphic writing and no carefully elaborated calendar." They were...