Our company had access to samples taken on earlier expeditions to the Lost City.

But that was on an earlier expedition, from 1907-09.

Wiggin did not "command an earlier expedition to this area".

He had not been here, of course, for the earliest expeditions.

"My next-door neighbors were children of people who'd been on the early expeditions."

It was found to be in a remarkable state of preservation, and included many artifacts from both the earlier expeditions.

Some early expeditions were crushed by the force of what they encountered.

If I could have told them about that earlier expedition, they might have understood my father's obsession with the country.

Second, the demons must have known well in advance where and when the earlier expeditions would come through.

A mile later we came across the only animal remains that we would ever find from the earlier expedition.