Let's go on home with 'em, and then come back--just us--have a little expedition of our own." We looked at him, much impressed.

There was something attractive to a bunch of unattached young men in finding an 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," I announced, examining those rags with great care.

"Somewhere up yonder they spin and weave and dye--as well as we do." "That would mean a considerable civilization, Van.

There couldn't be such a place--and not known about." "Oh, well, I don't know.

What's that old republic up in the Pyrenees somewhere--Andorra?
Precious few people know anything about that, and it's been minding its own business for a thousand years.