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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Incas | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

Mayas Superior to Incas

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scientists Invade Yucatan Jungles to Wrest Secrets of Lost Mayan Civilization from Temple Ruins | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scientists Invade Yucatan Jungles to Wrest Secrets of Lost Mayan Civilization from Temple Ruins | 1/19/1926 | See Source »

Sir, I protest. For weeks past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kritisism | 1/9/1925 | See Source »

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