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...make sure there were no pitfalls; and in about half an hour of walking we came to the end. Digging our way out, we reached the upper air and looked about us in entirely new surroundings. The place where we had come out was nothing less than Machu Picchu, the old capital city which Bingham discovered, the Hub of the Inca universe. You will remember from my earlier letters that the University was situated on a spur of the same mountain-unit on which the city was perched, but separated from it by a steep ridge which made it almost...
Near Machu Picchu, Peru November...
...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...
...these who come here for what they term social training, and for naught else. But we cannot be rid of them. If we desire a universal interest in the halls of learning, there must be made an effort to entice the blunter spirits away from the lures of Machu-Picchu". Cordially yours. J. BLAIR-DUNCAN...
...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...