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CIRCLE 7-5798
AMANDA EXPEDITION
EASTERN ANDES - ECUADOR
HEADQUARTERS: 240 CENTRAL PARK SOUTH NEW YORK 19, N.Y.
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August 16 1948.

Mr. Heye.
American Indian Museum
Bway & 125 Street.
New York.

On or About September 15, 1948, we plan to leave for the Transandean jungles of Ecuador unknown and unmapped worl, for research, and also to contact the Ssabelas Indians, better known as the Aucas. This master race of the jungle is supposed to live somewhere along the Napo River. Until today, as you know, many scientists and explorers have sought in vain to reach these savage tribes, who from time to time have ransacked and invaded the entire territory from the Napo to the Pastanza Rivers. In recent times, tribes of semicivilized Indians such as the Crucitas have disappeared from the land northwest of the Napo River. Our goal is to reach the Aucas.

The Amanda Expedition is going to explore this territory, map it, and in addition, make several short subject films, in technicolor, which we are positive will be the best of their kind. In them we want to bring to civilization the animal life of this part of the world, reports on its mineral resources, especially gold, of which there are supposedly great quantities in the Chipiruno River and many of its streams. Impenetrable jungles and ferocious Indians such as the Aucas, will make these pictures important for being the first ever made of these yet unconquered people. 

The second part of the Expedition will search the snow peaks of the Llaganatis Cordillera which is an unkown, lost world. Yes, these peaks have been sought by many scientists searching for a treasure and a waterway to the Orient. Among them were Father Logo, Anastasio Guzman, Richard Spruce and the prominent American Colonel Brooks, representative of the American Bank Note Company of New York, who journeyed to Ecuador in 1912, and by the British Captain and explorer Erskine Loch (Andes-Amazon Expedition, 1936).

In the Llaganatis rest a n Inca Treasure, Known as the "Valverde Treasure". Its history begins with a Spanish soldier named Valverde, who married an Inca Princess at the time of the conquest of Peru. She made him the richest man in the Spanish Empire. Upon his death, he willed his treasure to the King Phillip II of Spain, who subsequently sent an expedition under the comand of Father Logo. This person died in the attempt. After that, many followed without success. They failed because the ancient archieves of Madrid and Ecuador, concerning the treasure, are incomplete, and lack vital information. The guide and reports made in the first expedition by Father Logo have been found by us in the archieves of the Spanish Inquisition, and we are convinced that we have compiled all necessary material and information to lead us to the discovery of this treasure. 

The discovery of this Inca treasure will be the first since the conquest of the Inca Empire. Its archeological value, according to the best information available, is tremendous, and its history, the most magnificent ever written about that mystic land.

We are going to have with us 20th Century-Fox moving picture unit for the filming of short subjects, and all the equipment needed for an expedition of this sort.