. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. lK-S-2 South America—The Search for El Dorado ^699 In Venezuela a permanent settlement was founded at Cumana in 1520,and valuable pearl fisheries
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. lK-S-2 South America—The Search for El Dorado ^699 In Venezuela a permanent settlement was founded at Cumana in 1520,and valuable pearl fisheries were discovered. Then the Spanish EmperorCharles V, in 1527, granted this whole Venezuelan coast to his bankers, theWelsers, a German family of Augsburg. They sent a German governor,Alfinger, who proved quite as brutal to the Indians as any Spaniard had built the town of Coro and thence sent expeditions into the northernAndes to steal Indians and search for wealth. It was probably in Alfingers settlement of Coro that Europeans first beganto hear those celebrated legends of El Dorado which had so large a part inshaping the history of northern South America. The Indians told of a mightyking far in the center of the continent, who was so wealthy that his entirebody was covered with gold dust. Hence arose the name, El Dorado, whichmeant at first, the gilded man, but came gradually to apply to all his legendarydomain, the golden land. L
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