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...untold blessedness of learning, deplore that there should be in this, the most deeply learned of institutions, those for whom not the joy of much travelling in the realms of books is the greatest good, but rather the vanities of the world as found in the neighborhood of Machu Picchu. But it availeth us naught. They are here and their number, is legion, these youths who would make of this great university a limbo of varieties...
...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...
...Near Machu Piochu, Peru, Octr...
...National Geographic Magazine" may recall that about seven years ago there appeared in that publication two articles telling of an exploring expedition sent out by Yale University and the National Geographic Society under the direction of Dr. Hiram Bingham which resulted in the discovery of the city of Machu Picchu in a hitherto inaccessible region of the Peruvian Andes. We have not space here to explain the archaeological significance of this discovery. Suffice it to say that the city of Machu Picchu was believed to have been the cradle of the ancient Inca empire, Tampu-Tocco, or "Window-Tavern". What...
After speaking briefly on the four periods of Inca history, Professor Bingham went directly to a description of the expedition of 1912, on which was discovered Machu Picchu, the capital city of the Incas. He first told of the difficulties involved in reaching the region for research; how the party painfully plodded its way through a well-nigh impassable jungle, at the rate of a mile a day; how the problem of labor was overcome only by Peruvian police, who forced the lethargic natives to work; and how the expedition made its way over mountains, flooded torrents, and fathomless abysses...