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ing, and made a number of photographs of it. We hoped to be able 

 to return later to make a more complete record of the wall but were 

 not certain that we should have time to do so. The photographs, 

 printed a few weeks later in our Lima laboratory, led to so much 

 discussion, however, that just before our departure we arranged to 



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make a special trip to relocate and examine the wall from both the 

 air and the ground. 



Johnson and I, with our Peruvian observer, Captain Ceballos, flew 

 to Chimbote in the photographic ship and established a temporary 

 base there. Chimbote lies on one of the largest bays of the Peruvian 

 coast, a few miles south of the Santa Valley, of which it is now the 

 principal port. The little town in the lee of three tall, barren sand 



