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there and pumped the man for further information. He could tell.html">tell
but all girls. No place for men--dangerous. Some had gone
Dangerous? He looked as if he might shin up the waterfall on the spot.
any possible method of scaling that sheer cliff, and we had to get
"This is our find. Let's not tell those cocky old professors. Let's
expedition of our own."
We looked at him, much impressed. There was something
undiscovered country of a strictly Amazonian nature.
Of course we didn't believe the story--but yet!
"There is no such cloth made by any of these local tribes,"
up yonder they spin and weave and dye--as well as we do."
"That would mean a considerable civilization, Van. There
Pyrenees somewhere--Andorra? Precious few people know anything
years. Then there's Montenegro--splendid little state--you could
it with care and privacy on the voyage home. We discussed it after that,
might have had to beg and advertise for years to start the thing,
sport for the papers.
But T. O. Nicholson could fix up his big steam yacht.html">yacht, load his
biplane without any more notice than a snip in the society column.
We had provisions and preventives and all manner of supplies.
a very complete little outfit.
We were to leave.html">leave the yacht at the nearest safe port and go up
then drop the pilot when we got to that last stopping place of the
shallow lake. It had a special covering of fitted armor, thin but
explained proudly. "We'll start our flier from the lake and leave
Jeff. "There may be a contingent of gentlemen with poisoned
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