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you most do you went around finding your books and moving them to the front of the

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learned from the revolting French to some revolting women via some Brits abroad and a foul-mouthed Irishman.

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At the turn of the 20th century, American explorer Hiram Bingham set out to find Vielkabamba, the last

remaining stronghold of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.

Having had stories of ruins deep in the Peruvian Andes, he in a small team of researchers

set out, guided by a local Peruvian villager. Melchore Atiaga. In his recollections, Bingham wrote.

The morning of July 24th dawned in a cold drizzle. Arteagas shivered and seemed inclined to stay in his hut.

I offered to pay him well if he showed me the ruins. He demurred and said it was too hard a climb for such a wet day, but he finally agreed to go.

When asked just where the ruins were, he pointed straight up to the top of the mountain.

Bingham was led along a path before being handed over to a small 11 year old boy to take him the rest of the way.

After a hard two hour climb up a steep mountain path,

Bingham saw something wonderful.

Suddenly I found myself confronted with walls of ruined houses built of the finest quality of Inca stonework.

It was hard to see them for they were partly covered with trees and moss, the growth of centuries.

But in the dense shadow, hiding and bamboo thickets and tangled vines, appeared here and

there walls of white granite ashlars, carefully cut and exquisitely fit it together.

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