Century Monthly Magazine, Volume 92Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder Century Company, 1916 - American literature |
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Page 321
... Machu Picchu . This mysterious white granite city of the Incas or their predecessors was un- known to civilized man and the world until Professor Hiram Bingham of Yale visited the site in 1911 , to come back a year later in charge of an ...
... Machu Picchu . This mysterious white granite city of the Incas or their predecessors was un- known to civilized man and the world until Professor Hiram Bingham of Yale visited the site in 1911 , to come back a year later in charge of an ...
Page 323
... Machu Picchu ? " " Si , seņor , I attended los yanquis three months in their treas- ure - hunts . " The means has not yet been found of con- vincing the people of the sierra that any digging about old ruins can have any real motive ...
... Machu Picchu ? " " Si , seņor , I attended los yanquis three months in their treas- ure - hunts . " The means has not yet been found of con- vincing the people of the sierra that any digging about old ruins can have any real motive ...
Page 326
... Picchu . This was Mandorpampa . A grass - thatched hut on narrow The caņon of the Urubamba had shrunk to a ... Machu Picchu . He had long known of the ruins , as had other natives , but had never considered them extensive or ...
... Picchu . This was Mandorpampa . A grass - thatched hut on narrow The caņon of the Urubamba had shrunk to a ... Machu Picchu . He had long known of the ruins , as had other natives , but had never considered them extensive or ...
Page 327
... Machu Picchu " The. tously . There was no doubt that it was only the preliminary nibble of the myriad insects that would have fallen upon us in earnest and tattooed us into the strange patterns I had already often worn had we descended ...
... Machu Picchu " The. tously . There was no doubt that it was only the preliminary nibble of the myriad insects that would have fallen upon us in earnest and tattooed us into the strange patterns I had already often worn had we descended ...
Page 328
... Machu Picchu lay before us . My first impression was tinged with disappointment . Aside from the general experience of finding a long - heralded scene striking in inverse ratio to the length of time the imagination has fed upon it , my ...
... Machu Picchu lay before us . My first impression was tinged with disappointment . Aside from the general experience of finding a long - heralded scene striking in inverse ratio to the length of time the imagination has fed upon it , my ...
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