New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-18
FOUND EXPLORERS
BONES AND OLD CITY
Captain Besley, Back from
Peru, Came Upon Ancient
Inca Centre.

Til. expedition which Captain J. Camp
bell Besley, Of London. led through An
dean iungles never troj before by white
men. returned yesterday on the Lamport
4. Holt liner Byron with the announce
ment that they had discovered the ruins
OF p hitherto unexplored city Of the lncas'
and had also come upon the bleaching
bones OF members Of the Cromer-seljan
expedition.
The Cromer- seljan expedition. headed
bv ". ". Croner, a West Point man, had
left Lima the year before 10 penetrate
into the unknown interior Of Peru and To-
cate a concession made by the Peruvian
government 10 the Peruvian American
CORPORATION. William II. Page, high
school instructor, from Chicago, and Pat
rick OHisgins an American mining man
stationed al Cerro de Pasco, Peru, ac-
companied the party. II is the theory or
Captain Besley that an Indian Cir be-
,raved them into the hands Of an Indian
bandit band. with which Besley himself
had sharp but successful encounter.
This band visited the Besley expedition
in camp In the unknown country between
Ucayala and HuaIlaga rivers. They Of
fered TO point out the way 10 the liual-
laga River and the next morning depart
ed In the opposite direction. Captain
Besley followed them and watched them
describe a wide circle TO a point on the
path 10 the river where they lay in am
bush
The members Of the Besley party there
fore numbered their Wincnesters and
poured volley after volley into the Indian
band the moment they came upon them.
The Indians fed. and Besley and his men
continued on until they reached the Hual-
laga. then down the Hualaga by raft 10
the mouth Of the aybamba, and then up
the Huaybamba for four days and more
20 the little Indian village OF Galeche'
guided all the time by an Indian they
had captured in the fight
There they came upon the Indian girl.
She had a love letter written 20 her the
year before by Seljan in Spanish when
she could not translate. Captain besIey
translated il for her.
Reslev and his men followed the trail
which the Cromer-Seljan party had cut
| through the Jungle, and little TO one
| side OF il one day they came upon Pile
of little bones. human knuckles and nm
gers and so on. and one thigh bone IheF
hurried the bones, firmly convinced that
they belonged 10 Seljan and O'Hisgins.
Tbev are not so certain what became Of
Cromer and Page
Reslcy's followers comprised j. h. hoI-
brook. moving picture expert OF Ne"
York: i. Eugene Fanswcrth. writer
| and lecturer. OF Boston: Franklin -
| Coates. another moving picture man, or
! New York: j. Dunn, botanist. of Eng
LAND: George Shoup mining engineer
whom they picked up Al Lima 4 Gilaid.
a photographer. OF Boston, ana Reginald
Leonard. who had been appointed by the
I Peruvian government 10 study the Ota
Av. the insect whose bite is as bad as a
cancer The main part Of the expedition
left New York last June.
They came upon the lost Inca city,
platerivayoc by name, four days journey
from Cuzco. the old Inca capital. There
they dug up buildings ana fortifcauons
witch CAPTAIN Besley said could not have
ha., built more beautifully and substan-
! TALLY.
New Haven. Feb. lI-Fnofessor Hiram
| bingham. OF Yale University, who has
heen on explorations in Peru and has dis
covered several ancient cities, to-day
stated that the name PlateriNayoc' IN
which the Besley expedition is thought TO
have found a new Inca city. is applied 10
region where treasure was hidden dur
INC the Spanish Conquest. Such place
may he a myth. and the name y uscu d.
r,aorsdo is now used and ID may have