The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . theassayer, was a native product of the muchvaunted land of El Dorado. It was to an-swer these and similar allegations that he179 THE QUEST OF EL DORADO published his famous Discoverie of Gui-ana. But notwithstanding the hapless issue ofhis first venture, Raleigh still persisted inmaintaining Guiana to be a magazine ofall rich metals, and to contain within itsboundaries the greatest assurance of goodever offered to any Christian princes. Heinsisted in the most solemn manner that hehad propounded no va
The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . theassayer, was a native product of the muchvaunted land of El Dorado. It was to an-swer these and similar allegations that he179 THE QUEST OF EL DORADO published his famous Discoverie of Gui-ana. But notwithstanding the hapless issue ofhis first venture, Raleigh still persisted inmaintaining Guiana to be a magazine ofall rich metals, and to contain within itsboundaries the greatest assurance of goodever offered to any Christian princes. Heinsisted in the most solemn manner that hehad propounded no vaine thinge in thisreport regarding the land of Manoa theGolden. The enterprise in which he hadembarked he continued to asseverate to befesible and certayne. ® I asure my sealf, he writes to Sir Rob--ert Cecil, that ther ar not more diamoundesin the East Indies than ar to be founde inGuiana. And writing to the Earl of Hol-derness regarding a second expedition whichhe was to have depart for Guiana withoutdelay, he does not hesitate to declare, If I » Edwards, ut Vol. II, p. From OoufrtedtStrange CnsTOMS of the Tinitinas Writing Df the Tinitinas, who dwell on trees, Raleigh declaresthat when their lords die and tlie flesh has fallen from theirbones their relatives take up the carcaise againe and hangit in the Caciques house that died and decke his skull withfeathers of all colours, and hang all his gold plates about thebones of his armes, thighes. and legges * * * and do use tobeat the bones of their lords into powder, and their wivesand friends driuke It in their severall sorts of drinks. SIR WALTER RALEIGH bringe them not—the members of theexpedition—to a mountaine covered withgolde and siluer oare, let the commanderhave commissione to cut off my head ther. Eager, however, as was Raleigh to re-visit the land of El Dorado, an interval oftwenty-one years elapsed between his firstand second expeditions. Twelve of theseyears were spent in the Tower of London,whe
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