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...Also underground...
...significant feature in the political situation. Russia has a longer contiguous boundary with China than with any other country, and Bolshevik agents are making every effort to stir up the people. How far they have been successful cannot yet be judged because whatever movement there may be is still underground. The men who are running the government, however, are rather fearful for the immediate outcome...
...over their portals, such as "Gualdophi" and "Karelos", which are untranslatable, but seem to have been proper names. "Gualdophi", strangely enough, was also the name of an exclusive inn in the nearby city of Machu Picchu. One of the more unusual places of this kind was a sort of underground cave, below a curious structure that seems to have been a temple to the God of wine...
Even such aims of the Ku Klux Klan that are worthy for instance, "to assist the duly constituted authorities of one nation or state whenever and however they may call upon us" lose all their force because of the underground tactics and above-the-law attitude which the Klan adopts...
Wonders will never cease! One of our peons, while digging for potsherds on the outskirts of the university site the other day, suddenly felt the ground give way beneath him; and before he knew it, he found himself in a large hollow space at some depth underground. His shouts attracted fellow-workmen, who helped him out with a rope and brought Senor Alvarotez, Leon Cavallo, and myself to the scene of the discovery. With torches and shovels we descended into the opening and proceeded to explore...