Word: urubamba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the 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...
...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 is of most interest to us is that Dr. Bingham, at that time, conjectured that the Urubamba canyon, near which is the narrow ridge whereon Machu Picchu is situated, might be a rich field for explorers and regretted that he had not the resources to continue his excavations. The interruption of the war, however, prevented any such work being undertaken till this fall when the University...
...experienced, I must omit from this letter. They have just rejoined us here at Chita, with careful maps of the route they took and the discoveries they made. It will now be a simple matter for the whole expedition, now in good health, to make its way up the Urubamba Valley...