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| 412 | “‘Don’t think you can just crash’”: Vincent Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba (Cortéz: Sixpac Manco, 2000), 52. |
| 412 | “When night was come”: Gene Savoy, Jamil: The Child Christ (Reno: International Community of Christ, 1976), 106. |
| 413 | “I have been led”: Alfred M. Bingham, Explorer of Machu Picchu: Portrait of Hiram Bingham (Greenwich: Triune, 2000), 40, 43. |
| 414 | “I was a member”: Gene Savoy, Antisuyo (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), 16. |
| 414 | “Almost thirty”: Ibid. |
| 417 | “Was this the ‘Vilcabamba Viejo’”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), 159. |
| 417 | “The ruins of what we now”: Ibid., 192. |
| 418 | “the headwaters of the Pampaconas”: Victor von Hagen, Highway of the Sun (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1955), 106. |
| 418 | “This could only mean”: Ibid., 111. |
| 418 | “Hiram Bingham, the Yale”: Savoy, Antisuyo , 55, 71. |
| 419 | “The Vilcabamba plan”: Ibid. |
| 420 | “Our mules negotiate”: Ibid., 94. |
| 421 | “The [Inca] road we have been following”: Ibid., 103. |
| 422 | “Bingham had reached”: Ibid., 106. |
| 422 | “Who had used these tiles?”: Ibid., 97–98. |
| 423 | “For the first time I realize”: Ibid., 105. |
| 426 | “I couldn’t believe all of the ruins”: Vincent Lee, interview with author, October 2005. |
| 427 | “A visit to his [Savoy’s]”: Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 44. |
| 428 | “He exuded”: Ibid., 206. |
| 428 | “‘Exploring in South’”: Ibid., 52. |
| 429 | “‘If you’re careful’”: Ibid. |
| 429 | Using nothing more: It should be mentioned that the Peruvian historian Dr. Edmundo Guillén explored the Vilcabamba Valley in 1976, a dozen years after Savoy’s visit, and identified a number of sites mentioned by the invading Spaniards on their way to Vilcabamba in 1572. See Edmundo Guillén Guillén, La Guerra de Reconquista Inka (Lima: 1994), 206. |
| 429 | “My barometer read”: Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 106. |
| 430 | “The town has, or it would”: Martín de Murúa, Historia General del Perú (Madrid: DASTIN, 2001), 287. |
| 431 | Lee knew that: Richard L. Burger, Machu Picchu (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 30. |
| 431 | “the only known Inca ruin”: John Hemming, quoted in Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 17. |
| 431 | “After more than a century”: Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 144. |
| 432 | “There’s supposed”: Gene Savoy, quoted in Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 52. |
| 432 | “Continuing up the final stairway”: Ibid., 170–73. 434 “It was a fascinating”: Ibid., 205. |
| 434 | He couldn’t pay: Ibid., 208. |
| 434 | “‘[I] Just returned” ‘: Ibid., 215. |
| 435 | “So much for”: Vincent Lee, interview with author, October 2005. |
| 435 | “It didn’t take Sherlock”: Lee, Forgotten Vilcabamba , 217. |
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| 437 | “If you take a map”: Vincent Lee, interview with author, October 2005. |
| 437 | Machu Picchu is believed: Richard L. Burger, Machu Picchu (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), 24. |
| 438 | “It is said of this Inca”: Father Bernabé Cobo, in Roland Hamilton (trans.), Inca Religion and Customs (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990), 133. |
| 440 | “He [Pachacuti] began”: Ibid., 135–36. |
| 441 | Archaeologists who have: Kenneth Wright, Machu Picchu: A Civil Engineering Marvel (Reston: ASCE, 2000), 59. |
| 441 | Once the foundation: Ibid., 70, 77. |
| 442 | Archaeologists recognize: Ibid., 62. |
| 445 | They called the site: Archaeologists from Peru’s Instituto Nacional de Cultura (INC) began a five-year excavation program in 2002 at Espíritu Pampa—the first excavations that have been conducted since the Spaniards sacked the city in 1572. Preliminary results indicate that the city was indeed built by the Incas and most likely in the mid-fifteenth century (personal communication with the INC). The INC has also cleared large portions of the city, allowing visitors for the first time to gain a glimpse of what sixteenth-century Vilcabamba must have been like prior to the city’s abandonment. |
| 447 | The anthropologist: John H. Rowe, “Machu Picchu a la Luz de Documentos de Siglo XVII,” Histórica , Vol. 14, No. 1(Lima: 1990): 142. |
| 447 | “that night, I slept”: Ibid., 140. |
| 448 | In 1568: Ibid., 141. |
| 448 | “still other [ancient Inca]”: Charles Wiener, Voyage au Perou et Bolivie (Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1880), 345. |
| 449 | “The professors”: Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002), 115. |
| 449 | “We had with us”: Ibid. |
| 450 | “Charles Wiener”: Hiram Bingham, “The Ruins of Choqquequirau,” in American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 12 (1910): 523. |
| 450 | “This may be”: Hiram Bingham, Machu Picchu, A Citadel of the Incas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930), 1. |
| 450 | In Lost City of the Incas : In Bingham’s 1930 footnote citation, he had used the original Spanish language version of Figueroa’s report, published in its entirety in a 1910 German publication ( Relación del Camino e Viage que D. Rodríguez Hizo Desde la Ciudad del Cuzco a la Tierra de Guerra de Mango Ynga , in Richard Pietschmann, Nachrichten der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenchaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse aus dem Jahre 1910 , Vol. 66, No. 1 [Berlin, 1910]). In Bingham’s 1948 book, Lost City of the Incas , however, he made use of a bad translation of Figueroa’s report created in 1913 by Sir Clements Markham (Clements Markham, The War of Quito , Series 2, No. 31 [London: Hakluyt Society, 1913], 175). In Markham’s version, he erroneously changed the word “Picho” to “Viticos,” thus entirely erasing the reference to “Picho.” Nevertheless, Bingham omitted even this garbled version, no doubt aware that he had referred to the missing “Picho” on page one of his 1930 monograph. |
| 451 | “would have been fatal”: John H. Rowe, “Machu Picchu a la Luz de Documentos,” 140. |
| 451 | “Bingham was an explorer”: Anthony Brandt, “Introduction,” Hiram Bingham, Inca Land (Washington, D.C.:National Geographic Society, 2003), xvii. |
| 452 | “We are in a tropical”: Gene Savoy, Antisuyo (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970), 99. |
| 455 | “It was clearly”: Vincent Lee, telephone conversation with author, October 20, 2005. |
| 455 | “We spotted”: D. L. Parsell, “City Occupied by Inca Discovered on Andean Peak in Peru,” National Geographic News , March 22, 2002. |
| 456 | “I hadn’t been”: Gary Ziegler, telephone conversation with author, October 11, 2005. |
| 457 | “Every generation”: John Noble Wilford, “High in Andes, a Place That May Have Been Incas” Last Refuge,” New York Times , March 19, 2002. |
| 457 | “One of our wranglers”: Gary Ziegler, telephone conversation with author, October 11, 2005. |
| 458 | “You can’t get to it”: Ibid. |
| 458 | “I think Cotacoca”: Ibid. |
| 460 | It was an achievement: See Luis Guillermo Lumbreras, De los Orígines de la Civilización en el Perú (Lima: Peisa, 1988), 138. |
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