. The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters. the Spaniards of Peru heard the story of thegolden capital of the Omaguas, it fitted so well thestories current among the Peruvians of the lost treas-ures of the Incas that the fever for conquest againseized the followers of Almagro and Pizarro, who hadbeen so long engaged chiefly in slaying each other intheir bloody feuds. In 1555, when the Marquis of Canete, a scion of thenoble house of Mendoza, was appointed viceroy ofPeru, he broke the destructive domestic conflict bysending the leaders away
. The Amazons of South America; thrilling adventures of reckless buccaneers and daring freebooters. the Spaniards of Peru heard the story of thegolden capital of the Omaguas, it fitted so well thestories current among the Peruvians of the lost treas-ures of the Incas that the fever for conquest againseized the followers of Almagro and Pizarro, who hadbeen so long engaged chiefly in slaying each other intheir bloody feuds. In 1555, when the Marquis of Canete, a scion of thenoble house of Mendoza, was appointed viceroy ofPeru, he broke the destructive domestic conflict bysending the leaders away on adventurous expeditionsin search of the Dorado and the golden capital of theOmaguas. It was the universal testimony of thePeruvians that after the capture of the Inca Atahuallpaat Cassamalca by Pizarro, forty thousand of the nobil-ity assembled vast stores of their most precious andcostly treasures, which they carried across the Andeseast of Cuzco, where they founded a golden city inthe midst of the great forests, inaccessible to horse-men. Juan Alvarez Maldonado, one of the most turbulent. SEARCH OF EL DORADO 199 of the Almagro faction, was given the special task todiscover and despoil that city. Gomez de Tordoya,one of the partisans of the Pizarros, heard of this andhastily fitted out a rival expedition, intending to getto the scene of the spoils before Maldonado. Therewas a rush between the two packs of Spanish wolvesto see which could first reach the golden reached the shores of the Tono River first,but was soon overtaken by Maldonado. They fellupon one another and fought for three days, when,with nearly half killed on each side, Tordoyas mensurrendered. Meantime great numbers of theChunchos Indians had been gathering and theywatched the singular conflict with unabated its conclusion, they fell upon the exhausted sur-vivors and killed all but Maldonado, who saved him-self by hiding in a hollow log. He was an enormouslyfat man, but his energy an
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