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Otago Witness, Issue 3885, 28 August 1928, Page 35

Some indication of the perils facing explorers and missionaries, in the vast tracts of unknown land in-South America was given recently by Mr Allan Smith, a New Zealand missionary, who has spent the past 21 years in Argentine, Paraguay, and Brazil, and who is at present paying a visit to Gisborne, The missionary, while chatting with a Poverty Bay Herald reporter, mentioned that during the past 100 years four expeditions had endeavoured -to explore the jungles: just beyond Cuyaba, in... Brazil. seeking information concerninn; the last cities of the Inca dynasty, but so difficult and dangerous had been the task that not one of the exploring parties had been successful.: One was repulsed, and returned to civilisation, but the members- of"the other :three parties had either succumbed - frorii hunger arid privation.-; or. hart been destroyed by the Indians.