WELL, 1M PROUD OF] [I GUILT MY VAST FORTUNE IN MANY WAYS! MY MANY TRIUMPHS ! THIS EXHIBIT PROVES I WASN'T AFRAID TO ]GO AFTER TREASURES THAT THE SOFT/ES THOUGHT WERE IRRETRIEVABLY LOST! HOw COULD T FORGET? I PAID YOu 30 CENTS AN HOUR, DION'T =? 2 MRT! = JUST LOOK AT THE LEGENDARY PRIZES I'VE UNCOVERED IN MY TRAVELS... KING Sovomows, INES!... THE CROWN OF GENGHIS KHAN!. THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE! Dy THE GOLDEN FLEECE! 96 Ta sly j fo n mi NE Aw Waa. i} ate eae pe AR ee eT,YES, BOYS, YOUR UNCLE YOU'VE NEVER WHO...7 OH, MY ACHING [IN PERSON, YOU. SCROOGE 'S BOTH THE BEEN EVEBULBS ! FLINTHEART \ GREEDY TURNIP- WORLD'S RICHEST DUCK EITHER, GLOMGOLD! AND THE CHAMPION Me DUCK! TREASURE HUNTER! TM LOANING IT A STUPEFYINGLY VALUABLE COLLECTION OF DIAMONDS FROM MY FABULOUS MINES! 7HAT WILL GIVE THE CROWD SOMETHING WORTH. STAY PUT IN THAT MIDGET) IMPRESSIVE EXHIBIT MONEY BIN OF YOURS IN J) SO, NATURALLY, AFRICA! THEY CONTACTED OH, PLEASE, FLINTHEART! DON'T START SOMETHING! I DON'T THINK HUMPHA? STUFF AND NO MATTER HOW THOSE SILLY CONTESTS CAME OUT, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN THE MONEY CHAMP! AND I EARNED MY FORTUNE INSTEAD OF FINDING IT LYING ABOUT IN DUSTY TEMPLES AND MUSTY. CAVES! ZB To PROVE WHICH OF YOU IS THE RICHEST! ANYWAY, YOUR FORTUNES ARE TOO EXTENSIVE TO MEASURE! IF 1SSIONABLE| MATERIAL, eae PHILOSOPHER'S STONE, Oh To UKE 10 SEE \f WELL, FI EVER DID, I You"tay 12,900 \ceRTAiNLy WouLoNT so Toven aeour | |wee-rooteo {waste TIME ON SMALL CLAIMING OTHER POTATO “TREASURES” PEOPLE'S FORTUNES?SMALL POTA...7! > SNORTE T SUPPOSE YOU KNOW OF SOMETHING BIGGER ?! WHY, CERTAINLY ! ER... UH. LD SEARCH FOR SOMETHING WORTH FINDING . SOMETHING LIKE... UM... allt THE LOST GOLD OF ua! I'VE Gor vou! I Tar INCA EMPIRE! Hat's [ALREADY rouND THE RELICS oF wal CINCAN MINES POOH! YOU FOUND THE MINES! THEY WERE NOTHING COMPARED THAT OOES IT! I CHALLENGE YOU TO A CONTEST! WE'LL Just ISEE WHICH OF US CAN Locate ‘ANO CLAIM THE GREATER INCAN TREASURE! ‘OH DELIVER US! TRACKLESS WASTES AND UNCHARTED REGIONS, HERE WE COME AGAIN! aoe len MY CARELESS NEPHEW DOESN'T KNOW BETTER THAN, TO ROUGHHOUSE INA MUSEUM! YOU BLOCKHEAD! YOU'VE BROKEN AN ANCIENT INCAN FUNERARY POT FROM MR. McOUCK'S EXHIBIT!GREAT SCOTT! LET ME ) 7H) SEE THAT! WHY, IT'S GOLD, AND CovEeRED WITH HIEROGLYPHS ! MY INSTINCTS TELL ME I'M ALREADY HALF- WAY TO THAT INCAN TREASURE TROV LET'S GO INTO MY OFFICE! I THINK I INCREDIBLE: THIS DISK TELLS THE STORY z/ OF EMPEROR TUPA INCA YUPANGUI, WHO RULES THE INCAS AT THE HE/GHT OF THEIR GLORY. IT SEEMS HE ORDEREO CONSTRUCTION OF A SECRET TEMPLE ON A VIRTUALLY INACCESSIBLE MOUNTAIN AHAE THE TEMPLE WAS To STORE THEIR GOLD, NO! IT WAS BUILT TO. HONOR THEIR CHIEF GOD, MANCO CAPAC, THE SON OF THE SUN! THERE'S A MAP HERE THAT CHARTS. THE SECRET ROUTE PEAK ORAT AND DOUBLE- ORAT! THAT HELPS ME EXACTLY NONE! HOLO ON, UNCA SCROOGE! uk “JUNIOR WooDcHUCKS GUIDEBOOK AND RESER- VOIR_OF INEXHAUSTIBLE KNOWLEDGE” PICKS UP THE STORY ALMOST SIXTY YEARS “BUT MOST OF THE GOLD WAS STILL HELD BY LOYALISTS OF THE DEPOSED EMPEROR, HUASCAR, WHO REFUSED TO PAY! INSTEAD, THE LEGENDS SAY, THEY HIO THE GOLD IN A SECRET TEMPLE WHERE MANCO CAPAC COULD PROTECT IT!” Bi I'D SAY SOMETIME AROUND 72 ITS LOCATION! PIZARRO AND HIS SPANISH CONQUISTADORS INVADED THE INCA EMPIRE IN 153Z, JUST AS AN INCAN CIVIL WAR WAS ENDING! HE IM- PRISONED THE NEW EMPEROR, ATAHUALPA, AND DEMANDED THE INCA GOLD AS RANSOM! ASTOUNDING! INE ‘STUDIED INCAN HISTORY “SORRY, SIR! THE JUNIOR’ WOODcHUCKS T CION'T KNOW THAT! LEY ME SEE THAT EVES OF JUNIOR WOOD- CHUCKS ONLY!THE MAP ON THIS. DEPICTION OF THE FACE OF MANCO CAPAC, THE SUN K_,c00! yet THERE'S AN EVE... AND DISK IS A SYMBOLIC ) A NOSE... AND THE ROUTE] BEGINS AT THIS MOUTH PACK YOUR GAGS, BOYS!) BUT TUL LEAVE r REMEMBER, UNCA WE LEAVE FOR LIMA IN TONIGHT, SCROOGEY! Tie NEXT MORN. SCROOGE! YOU'RE THE MORNING! HEH, HEH, HEH! AND His RELATIVES PLGA PAYING US THIRTY I RECOGNIZE THE MOUTH SHAPE! IT'S LAKE TITICOOCOO! I WAS THERE BACK IN i916 WHEN I TRADED ALPACA SWEATERS TO LLAMA HERDERS AND LLAMA SWEATERS TO ALPACA HERDERS HIGH IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES! WINGING THEIR ye ‘AN HOUR! WAY 10 PER CR Z [Wawa wece la Renreo Teck aumes acone a noun rain Rose tots ABOVE CAKE HEY! IT'S THREE HOURS LATER HERE! You OWE US EACH ANOTHER NINETY T1N€00600... ae ~ & WE'VE REACHED THE LAKE, UNCA SCROOGE! FROM HERE ON, WE'LL NEED A MOUNTAIN GUIDE! MAYBE THIS, OLD INDIAN CAN HELP us! WHAT?! NO, NO! WE'RE ON YT CAN SAVE YOU THE TRA OF THE Lost JA LOT OF TROUBLE, GOLD OF THE INCAS! Sefor! 1 KNOW CAN YOU HELP _US \exacriy were FINO A GUIDEZ ‘THE GOLO EES!THE LEGENDS OF OUR ANCESTORS: SAY THAT WHEN OUR LANDS WERE INVAQED, THEY WERE TOLD 10 GEEVE OP THE GOLD TO THE PROTECTION OF MANCO CAPAC! THE SON OF THE SUN SWALLOWED EET TO HEES BOTTOMLESS SOUL! THEY DUMPED THE GOLO EEN THE LAKE, SEROR! INTO THE MOUTH OF MANCO CAPAC! THAT E€S WHERE EET EES AN’ WHERE EET STAYS! WHAT ABOUT THAT, Bovs? ff LIKE THE AZTECS OID WITH THEIR GOLO, EH? A PRETTY GOOD PLAN CONSIDERING THE LAKE LOOKS VOLCANIC IN ORIGIN...1T COULO VERY Y WELL BE BOTTOMLESS! LETS TRY THAT VILLAGE, DOWN YOU WASTE YOUR TIME, SERORES! I TELL You, THE GOLD AMERICANOS ARE CRAZY! SOON, WE HOPE! WE HAVE HAD A DROUGHT FOR MANY AY AND SAVE HEES PEOPLE EEN THEIR DARKEST OUR GUIDEBOOK SAYS THE LAKE WAS ONE OF PIZARRO’S BASE CAMPS! THE INCAS WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CARRY OUT THAT PLAN! SI, SENOR! WE KNOW THE TALES OF THE LOST TEMPLE! THAT EES WHERE LIVES MANCO CAPAC... WHERE HEES BREATH OF LIFE DRAWS DEEP AND WHERE HEES ALL- SEEING EVE WATCHES OVER HEES PROVE 70 BE EVEN MORE SUPERSTITIOUS... ‘OUR LAST SUPPLY OF SEED EES DYING EEN OUR MOUNTAIN- SIDE TERRACES! WE MANCO CAPAC WEEL SAVE US. PABLO! YOU WEELPLEASE, SENORES! SEEK NOT TO OEFILE THE HOME OF THE SON OF THE SUN! To cisTURB THE EYE OF MANCO CAPAC EES DOOM! FLUMMERY! HUMBUG! THANKS FOR NOTHING! I SUPPOSE You've GOT MORE ADvice 4 ABOUT MR. CAPAC'S YOU THERE! LOW RATES! EASY PAYMENTS! < TAKE BANK OF OUCKBURG CHARGERCARD! THE ANDES, I CAN FLY YOY GAH! THE ONLY THING BELIEVE IN IS WINNING Q_THIS CONTEST! I MUST BEAT GLOMGOLO! EASY, UNCA SCROOGE! WHO ARE WE TO MOCK THE LEGENDS THESE PEOPLE HAVE BELIEVED FOR CENTURIES! I HAVE AN OLD CARGO PLANE I BOUGHT IN CUZCO! T CAN Save YOU MANY DAYS’ CLIMB BY FLYING YOU TO A LANDING STRIP I KNOW OF ON A HIGH PLATEAU! ‘OHO! COINCIDENCE! I OWN THAT BANK! LOAD OUR GEAR, THAT AREA BELOW 15 THE VILCABAMBA, ONE OF THE LAST UNEXPLORED REGIONS ON EARTH! THOSE MOUNTAIN “\ PEAKS OON'T EVEN HAVE THE INCAS 6UILT ENTIRE MOUNTAINTOP CITIES HERE TO HIDE FROM THE CONQUISTADORES! EXPLORERS FOUND ONE SUCH CITY, NAMED MACHU PICCHU IN I9I, BUT NO ONE KNOWS. WHAT OTHER SECRETS ARE HIDDEN IN THOSE THOUSANDS OF S@UARE MILES!SPEAKING OF SECRETS, ) THERE /SN‘T ONE!] [GREAT SACKS OF DELIRIUM! ) DONT BOTHER GETTING UP! T INSIST! D ae ‘Ri a ME WERE OVER A CERTAN -| Jeass wHeRe TVE ARRANGED AWAY WITH THiS, YOU fo Meet SOME FRIENDS, SO) BLACKGUARO! TLt BE LEAVING YoU Now!) TLL FOLLOW, You! ‘ " Cry bs 0) (Eo) PAMSA) | cee? ” > HA! EVEN IF YOU CAN FLY A PLANE, THERE'S NO. PLACE TO LAND! BY THE TIME YOU CAN BAIL AIN RANGES AND I'LL BE LONG GONE! QUITE PICKLE, EH, MEDUCK 7 Z SCREECH! TOLD YOUR GROUND, T WONT Know POY QUICK! BREAK YM NEPHEW! I’M NOT LETTING Ag ustie rive OUT THE GLOMGOLD GET AWAY PARACHUTES! THAT EASILY! "STRAP YOURSELVES IN! I’M TURNING THIS, CRATE AROUND BEFORE WE GET TOO FAR MY PLAN 1S WORKING PERFECTLY! THERE ARE S77 THE, SYMBOLS ARE EASY TO READ! THE "MOUTH EES LAKE TITICOOCOO AND THE “NOSE” EES A MOUNTAIN TO THE NOR SALUDOS, SEROR! ) J RIGHT HERE ON THIS. Do you Have THE /( VELLOW OISK! TAKE A MAP NOW? SQUINT ANO LET'S GET MOVING! HEY! EASY WITH THAT DISK, CONFOUND YOU! YOU MIGHTes a | ZOUNDS! THIS PLANE SUDDENLY FEELS LIGHT AS A FEATHER! I CAN'T HOLO HER DOWN! ELL HAVE IT SACK UNDER CONTROL IN A ND! JUST STAY IN YOUR SEATS AND READ A MAGAZINE!GLOMGOLD! CANT WE EVER GET RID OF Your] YOU BLASTED MEDDLERS! MY PORTERS AND LLAMAS WON'T STOP RUNNING UNTIL_THEY HIT THE AMAZON RIVER! THAT WAS OUR UNCLE ISCROOGE DISAPPEARING) INTO THE MIST! A ROPE GRIOGE! AN INCAN ROPE BRIDGE! STILL HANGING AFTER OVER 400 YEARS! THEY WERE BUILT TO LAST!CON'T WORRY, UNCA OONALO! WELL, RELATIVELY IN 1890! SPEAKING YOU FOUND A_HUACA, UNCA_OONALO! AN INCAN GUARDIAN IDOL! is! ON A PEAK WITH SUCH SHEER SIDES You HAVE TO USE A ROPE BRIOGE JO GET THIS HIGH! 00 YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS? NEVER MINO THAT: IT MEANS THIS 5 THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LOST TEMPLE! AND THE SUMMIT) IS JUST AHEAD! IT SHOULO fy BE RIGHT UP,HEEHEEHEE! Z FINALLY BEAT Ou ScROOGEY! HO HOHO! NOT MUCH OF A VICTORY AFTER WHAT YOU DIO _TO POOR UNCLE SCROOGE! BESIOES, YOU HAVEN'T FOUND ANY TREASURE YeT! THAT'S THE CONTEST! 7WHY, SURE! THIS 15 WHY THEY BUILT THE BROTHER, THAT'S HOT!) Jit MUST KEEP THE INCAS THOUGHT WAS THE “LIFE BREATH" OF ‘MANCO CAPAC! ‘SURELY THE LOCAL INDIANS YJ NosiRecsOa! NO- HMMPH! EO SAY THIS OR SOMEBOOY WOULD HAVE JP BODY COMES INTO PLACE is AS EMPTY FOUND THIS PLACE AND EMPTIED 'T LONG AGO! x b A‘JUST_LOOK AT ALL THIS STUFFT IZE STATUES! MASKS! BINS OF BAUBLES AND IT'S ‘MORE GOLD THAN AND BROOCHES! MM ALL SOLIO, ANYWHERE 24 KARAT ELSE ON EARTH! THIS 15 A REGULAR ZOO! GET A LOAD OF THESE LLAMAS! MONKEYS! PARROTS! LIZARDS! BUTTERFLIES! AND IT'S MINE? iT BELONGS ALL MINES To me! HA HA! Ho Ho! HEE HEE! WHO CARES DISTURB MY GOLDEN TREASURE?! YOU_WISH! ALTHOUGH MAMA, I'M OREAMING! IT'S STILL MY GOLD! iTS MANCO CAPAC, FOLLOW ME INTO THE HimseELe! REAR COURTYARD! GREAT FLAMING CATWHISKERS! NOT, votWHO? WHAT? HOW? SCORE! £ PSPUTTER!E YOU SURE TOOK YOUR ‘SWEET TIME GETTING HERE! VE BEEN WAITING OVER A WEEK!... HOW 00 YOU LIKE YOUR EGGS, BOYS? le i TUALLY SINCE YOU HAVE MY ‘MAP-OISK! QUICK, UNCLE SCROOGE! DO SOMETHING!ANOTHER EASY Vic— ORY FOR SCROOGE McDUCK, WORLD'S RICHEST CUCK ANO CHAMPION TREASURE KUNTER! OR SOIT | ox SEEMS! YES, BOVS: I MIGHT HAVE IT WAS INSTINCT! wat ARE FLOWN THAT PLANE INTO ANY | [THE INSTINCT THAT J you KIO so IONE OF HUNOREOS OF MISTY HAS MADE ME THE INTERESTED JI CLOUDS! BUT WHY 00 YoU WORLD'S RICHEST. IN? 4y THINK I_HAPPENEO To PICK THE ONE SHROUDING THIS MOUNTAINTOP 7. THis DISK, UNCA NAMELY, WHY OOS IT REFER | [WELL, PUT THAT STUFF DOWN! CONALO! THeRE’s Jif To MANCO CAPAC's “TREASURE” WE NEED TO TRY TO FIND STILL SOMETHING §S} WHEN IT WAS ENGRAVED OVER A ‘A WAY OF THIS MOUNTAIN! WE CAN'T FIGURE! JE{ HALF-CENTURY BEFORE THE . GOLD WAS HIODEN HERE ? [50 THERE'S MORE THAN ON! INCAN SECRET! LET'S SEE MAKES HIS WAY UP THE LABLE NUMBERS”. : TEMPLES EXTERIOR [INCAN HIEROGLYPHICS:” STAIRCASE! HE + CARRIES THE GOLDEN, DISK AND A JUNIOR WOODCHUCKS* GUIDEBOOK, VET HE 15 NOT A TO BETTER WORK FAST! THE SUN IS. ALMOST IN POSITION!JUST AN EMPTY, OOM! AT LEAST, IT LOOKED EMPTY! WORRY, WORRY. worey! WHAT CouLo THAT TRICKSTER BE UP To?[vust 45 ¢ THOUGHT! Ear WE YOUR HEART OUT, SCROOGEY!) BEHOLD! THE ORIGINAL TREASURE YF OF THE SON OF THE SUN! THE 6} OF MANCO CAPAC! HOW'S YOUR GEMOLOGY, McOUCK? 1° SAY THOSE “SUN RAYS” ARE ENORMOUS EQUADORIAN THAT SUNBURST 15 SOLID’ PLATINUM WITH EMERALDS! BETWEEN THE RAYS ARE RUBIES AND LAVENDER STAR-SAPPHIRES SET IN FIELDS BLACK PEARLS FROM POLYNESIA OF BROWN OPALS AND MOONSTONES! AROUND THE RIM, EH? ZGRUNT= A cLusteR| [iF YOU RECALL, OUR CONTEST 5 TO FIND ‘OF BLUE DIAMONDS| |THE “GREATER INCAN TREASURE!” AND THIS, ize MAKES ME THE WINNER! NOT BY A JUGFUL, GLOMGOLD:I_CLA/MED THIS TEMPLE YM WRONG, Mc OUCK! YOU vy WY 2swuer'? THis suneuest IS THE SINGLE MOST YOU THREE SQUIRTS! HE'S GOT VOU,UNCA JON YOUR HONOR AS. THINK ALL VOU WANT, LOSER: 7” 6 ay vow? ‘SUNBUIFOUL! FOUL! I'LL SCRAPE THE GOLD OFF WITHA POTATO PEELER AND Give IT To YOU INA Sack! MITTS OFF MY SUNBURST, GLOMGOLO! fi Ios, C ‘OUR TIME'S UP, UNCA (QUICK? GET INSIDE DONALD! THOSE GASES: THE TEMPLE AND HAVE SUPERHEATED TO TAKE COVER! CRITICAL PRESSURE! oz aneTHAT WASNT 50. Ban! MY UNCA scROOGE: DONT GO NEAR THE DOOR!SAME AS IN HERE! THE MOUNTAINTOP, TEMPLE ANO A ALL. HAS BEEN BLOWN OFF WASN'T THERE y THERE Tis: Ee Oya AN OLD. g FLOATING UP, TAPESTRY ERE! a ‘00H! SHOULDN'T HAVE EATEN THOSE EGGS! DfT Ve Gor it: Putt me BACK! HURRY! HURRY! ey) WAIT... WAIT A SECONO! THIS REMINOS ME OF MY DREAMS!JEANWHILE, BACK AT ‘RUN! BET EES THE CAKE TITICOOCOO.. END OF TIME! AAAIIEEE! THE SKY! EET GROWS DARK! BROTHER, THAT'S ACTION!KIVE XIV! THE | OH, WHAT A HAPPY, SON OF THE SUN ‘SAVED! WE WeEL TH HAPPY DAY THEES. HAS RETURNED! vi ! ' ARE VOU HAPPY, FLINTHEART? YOUR GREEDY FIT WITH THAT SUN- BURST STARTED ALL THIS AND ff, NOW THE TEMPLE, AND EveRY- WELL, 50 WHAT? AT LEAST ISCROOGE CION'T BEAT ME AGAIN! HE LOST His GOLO JANO I_LOST MV SUNBURST! ALL BETS ARE OFF! Nh © WHERE 1S: 3 UNCA SCROOGE?i wulasers! rm) I PROMISED TO BUILO JENNY ISN'T THAT SWEET! TM NOT IMPRESSED! YOU WILL BE! IN RETURN, THEY SOLD ME THE LAKE FOR ONE PESO! I'NOW OWN THE TEMPLE, THE GOLD, AND THE SUNBURST! OF COURSE, I CAN'T GET MY HANDS ON IT. OHO! MY STUBBORN AMIGOS, THE AMERICANO DUCKS! DEEO YOU FIND THE GOLD OF THE INCAS? YES, CONFOUND IT! IT'S AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT STUPID LAKE!!! WELL, G65 THAT NOT WHAT x TOLD YOU)) [HMPH! THESE AMERICANOS: EEN THE FIRST PLACE? ARE CRAZY!