The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-18
SAYS HE FOUND BONES
Discovered Ruins of City
That Must Have Ante
dated Incas.
STUDIES DEADLIEST FLY
He and Three Companions Here
After Long Trip Across
South America. =.

Capt J. Campbell Besley OF London
arrived at New York yesterday with three
companions fresh from the UNEMPLOYED
wilds of Peru. Brazil and the upper waters
Of the Amazon. where they spent ten
months
A narrative OF the trip through the last
unknown country OF the world reads like
a chapter of ancient explorers. II told
~ following the trail OF the i'll fated
Cromer- Seljan exploration expedition. and
Of the finding OF the bones OF Seljan and
Patrick O'Higgins. who had been devoured
by cannibals.
They related the discovery of three pre-
Inca cities abandoned 10000 or 10000
years ago. but with evidences Of mar
vellous architectural art still intact and
wonderful campi utensils and weapons.
campi being an alloy of gold and
silver They described the discovery OF
. city along the upper reaches of the
Amazon Which was guarded by stone,
gates weighing thousands of tons, still
standing. where the inhabitants had
banked UP the river with stone NO that
they could control II. with Notifications
rising tier on tier as modern forts rise.
each communicating with the other by
subterranean passages.
They told of long rides over mountains
-o,ooo feet high with burros. llamas and
horses, marches through jungles, the way
Of which had to be cut by machctcs. a
fight with bandits running skirmishes
with Indian tribes using poisoned arrows
ana old fashioned fiintlock guns, and
nnaly the finding Of road six feet wide
through the jungle, paved and bordered
with stone. l.5O0 miles long. built by pre-
historic races when the world was young.
according TO other histories. and at las;
bee discovery and Investigation OF y fly
more deadly than the tsetse fly of Africa
the bite OF which deposits a parasite which
destroys all skin tissues until death
comes
Capt. Besley. Franklin 3. Coates and J.
* Holbrook. moving picture men, and J.
W. Dunno OF London. botanist. came
here on the Lamport and Holt steamship
Byron from Barbados. They had
reached the British island from Para,
Brazil. and they had arrived at Para after
Journey OF more than 5000 miles down
the Amazon River system from far above
Iauitos In Brazil.
1.-THE suns" Crusade Effective.
Between Iquitos and Putumayo further
down the river. Capt. Besley and his
friends made one discovery which he very
gladly communicated to The sun. He
said that atrocities in the rubber district
have ended and that the fortunes formerly
inflicted upon the workers In the forest
are no longer allowed The publication
in THE Sun and the subsequent investi-
cations abroad have brought about a re-
form.
The investigation of the situation"
said Capt. Besley. has resulted In the
appointment OF Col b. Puenta OF the
Peruvian army as Governor OF the dis
uict He Is assisted by Bernardo Lores
and they have charge Of upper Amaxonas.
They have brought about a great reform
throughout the country. 1 was much i'm
dressed by Col. Puenta, a stern disci-
plinaran but a humanitarian as well SO
long as Ire remains they will not exploit
the Indian as they have DONE
Capt. Besley and ten companions left
Lima. Peru, In July. 1913. determined to
80 through the unexplored country be-
t"eer Peru, Bolivia and Brazil. lie was
an experienced traveller In Africa. the far
North and Tibet, but the men with
hlui were raw. Their first expedition to
break everybody in was to the Chanchu-
mayo Valley to study the uta fly. which
has its African prototype badly beaten.
according to Capt. Besley. He found DIR.
Townsend OF the United States bureau OF
medical research already there studying
'he little insect and trying to discover
remedy for his fatal bite.
Specimens Of Deadly Fly.
We went to take photog raphs OF this
n.y. said Capt. Besley at the Waldorf
astoria yesterday. land We obtained some
me specimens. not only Photographic but
real This Is the most interesting fly In
the world to me. II IL very small, black,
aud has a long proboscis. 1t deposits Its
sss with that or it's teeth. as nearly as
could discover. Wherever II bites the
-arasi,es subsequently eat all the flesh.
one OF our party was bitten, but prompt
application Of antiseptics killed the germs.
we returned from Lima thereafter
because out OF Cerro de Pasco. Peru, eight
OF tn" eleven Americans In our party were
seized with fever. Holbrook, Coates and
myself later left Lima for "A trip to the
inca country. We took steamer to Mol
Iehuo IN the Inca country and then went on
70 'uzco, the ancient Inca capital There
after We we're In a country In which few
" any white men have ever penetrated.
Leaving Molendo we struck the old
highway, built by the ancient Incas. to
Quitos. 1900 miles long and a little more
uasa six feet wide. II IL paved and
banked and AZ perfect to-day almost As
u was when II was built thousands OF
Years ago. It Is thought to be 10000
wears old We investigated Inca ruins.
"a" their marvellous architecture. studied
ne hioros'yphics and concluded the Inca
"as the IDEAL socialist, Every man. woman
ana child had his task in the community