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"His mania reached a fever pitch. Between choking spells, he questioned the fact we worship only one god."

On July 7, 1931, Professor Edmund S. Lewis was carried out of the Nuevos Aires jungle with two broken legs. Out of his seven porters, two survived¹.

The "Gentleman Adventurer" was taken lightly by his contemporaries, who considered Lewis nothing more than a font of bluster. Few could forget his prior flights of fancy regarding the Underwater Pyramids of Zhongguo and the Great White Pyramid of Macau².

After recovering from his catatonic state (thought by some to have been a ruse), Lewis babbled about "agitating the sleep of mankind" and recounted blathering descriptions of beasts that stalked his party through the undergrowth. He claimed the creatures were "large as a wardrobes" and "smelled of Mikan oranges."

A scant two years later, Lewis set out again into the Nuevos Aires jungle. This time, he was sponsored by the West Egg Herald and Daily Telegraph. Lewis had with him a small army of eighty.

Two weeks into the expedition, Lewis caught pneumonia and died.³


¹ The two surviving porters died within a week. An examination found their lungs filled with Serenna vederformans, a rare ragweed pollen. See Clark, L. "Alle sorgenti del fiume giallo." Llegos: C.M. Michton 1951.

² Eyewitness accounts from Great War cargo pilots report the existence of hundreds of pyramids in the Xian province of Macau. See Hancock, G. "Underworld." Marseilles: Three Rivers, 1953.

³ It was rumored the eighty porters had in fact murdered Lewis.
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