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| 32 | 559 | I, View more quotes about perhaps">perhaps alone of all white people, now understood, or thought I understood, what had become of the population of the city which, over centuries, had fallen into ruins. |
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| 32 | 556 | At a given point, perhaps determined by their priests or chiefs, for no reason that is clear to us, the population, it seemed, had abandoned the city, marching away into the jungles. |
| 32 | 557 | The fate of the population was one of anthropology's mysteries. |
| 32 | 558 | I was thrust toward the city. |
| 32 | 559 | I, perhaps alone of all white people, now understood, or thought I understood, what had become of the population of the city which, over centuries, had fallen into ruins. |
| 32 | 560 | They had come here, it seemed, to this point in the jungle, and, here, had rebuilt their city. |
| 32 | 561 | The numerous individuals, red men and women, in their colorful feathers and robes, on the walks and terraces of this city, maintaining their old way of life, it seemed, were their living descendants. |
| 32 | 562 | Sticks, pushed against my back, guided me to a narrow doorway, leading into a room, carved out of living rock, in the base of what I took to be a temple. |