Evening star., 1924-11-30
Over the Equator and Around and Through South Amerc

This fortress demonstrates bold
initiative and military skill in it's
designers and despotic control of
unlimited highly trained labor in it's
builders. In addition to the fortress
we saw al Cuzco other proofs of the
existence of the same combination OF
conditions as that under which the
Egyptian pyramids were built We
| saw the famous twelve-angled stone
| in the foundation wall of the palace
| or inca Roca, into the angles OF
which the surrounding blocks OF
| stone perfectly fit. We saw the
curVing, highly polished wall, the
most artistically beautiful piece of
work yet discovered here, which
| marked one end of the external foun-
| dation wall of the great Temple of
| the Sun, studded with gold plates
| outside and gold-lined inside. It is
seen in the garden of the church and
convent of st. Dominick, which have
been built upon the foundation walls
| of the ancient temple.
Recent excavations, including those
of Prof Hiram Bingham. prove that
the vast, rich. densely populated and
| prosperous empire of the Incas,
known to extend so days journey
| from north to south, from Ecuador
to Chile, really pushed itself for
| many miles in directions in which
writers on the subject had not sus-
pected that it extended.
Inca Road Builders and Conserva-
ti0nists.
A KIN TO the wall building work at
Cuzco and in the Inca cities
scattered through the adjacent region
is the d-building herculean labor
which spread broad, smooth roads
| for thousands of miles through the
mountains and mountainous plateau
of the Inca empire
The palaces of old Egypt have
vanished: its towering temples re-.
main. OF the old New World struc-
lures of Central America and Mexico
the temples are gone, but some pail
aces have survived. OF the Inca
structures all that is characteristic
or DO h temples and palaces seems
to have perished, but fortress and
foundation walls and traces of great
roads abide.
After due consideration has been
given to all the Inca structural re-
mains the conclusion will perhaps be
reached that the greatness of the
lncas was not as architects and house
builders, but as unsurpassed wall
builders and as daring and indom-
liable road builders OF remarkable
engineering ability and as the worlds
nnest irrlgationiSts and soil develop
ers, the original American conserya-
tionists, centuries before Pinchot.
The approach to and return from
the falls not only carry the visitor
to wonderful engineering works of
man In canal and railroad to grand
mountain scenery and to the remains
of an ancient civilization, but also to
series of attractive and progressive
modern cities, sometimes built upon
and developing from ancient founda-
tions.
Ancfent-Modern Cities. Attractive and
Progressive.
ONE can see the ancient modern
~ cities of Lima, Arequipa and La
Paz-picturesque Spanish Arequipa,
surrounded closely by mountains
nearly 10000 feet high. with Harvard
college Observatory on Ell Mistfs
slopes; La Paz, OF unique location
and interest, at the same time ele-
waited $4,000 feet in air and sunk to
the bottom of a hole or basin with pre-
cipitous sides 1,I00 feet deep: nro-
gressive, attractive Santiago. with it's
patriarchal, hospitable, great fam
iiies' its hill park and it's fine
mountain environment: Buenos Aires
busy, prosperous, impressive, the
largest city in the world south
| OF the equator, next to New York
and Chicago the largest city in the
Americas, next to Paris, the largest
Latin city in the world: Montevideo.
with its seashore beaches and parks,
| its clean streets and its clean demo-
| cratic government; Sac Paulo, In the
heart of coffeeland, OF unsurpassed
| continuous growth In population, in
commercial strength and in external
| beauty, still bearing in wrecked
church and factories and in myriad
bullet holes the marks Of the recent
revolution: and beautiful up-to-dat
| Rio de Janeiro. than which there is
| no city in the world more attractive
| in location and external aspect