AN INCA CITY.
EX ISTENCE PREVIOUS LY UNKNOWN. DISCOVERED ON MOUNTAIN TOP. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LIMA Peru), Aug. 8. The accidental discovery by a scientific expedition exploring Machupiccho of an Inca city where no white, man has ever known to have set loot is reported in a telegram from the prefect of the department of Oumico to President Leg.uia. From the; windows of the Inca astronomical observatory one of the explorers saw with binoculars oil the top of Tuainapiecho Mountain the walls and platform of another town whose existence was unknown. It was thought i no white man had ever set foot there, since the mountain is sour rounded by a deep ravine, the sides of which are too steep for sealing without card ul preparations. The explorers say the town disappeared at the same time as the Inca I Empire was wrecked by the Spanish conquerors.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 August 1928, Page 8
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153AN INCA CITY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 August 1928, Page 8
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