. Romances of Mobile . t of fire: Carmelita, at last I behold the shining towers of ElDorado! Rest thou sweetly, beloved. Tomorrow 1 will reachthem, then ho, for Spain and thee! 11 was the fever tearing himand burning his brain, said my father, so that he saw a visionwhich to him was real, or mayhap the Great Spirit showedunto him those things which mortal eye may not behold. Then, raising his weakened arms to the sun, he cried:*E1 Dorado! El Dorado! 1 see thy towers! 1 come! Andthen the Great Spirit swept him to His bosom. Thus passedGleaming Beetle and these be his possessions. An idle tale,
. Romances of Mobile . t of fire: Carmelita, at last I behold the shining towers of ElDorado! Rest thou sweetly, beloved. Tomorrow 1 will reachthem, then ho, for Spain and thee! 11 was the fever tearing himand burning his brain, said my father, so that he saw a visionwhich to him was real, or mayhap the Great Spirit showedunto him those things which mortal eye may not behold. Then, raising his weakened arms to the sun, he cried:*E1 Dorado! El Dorado! 1 see thy towers! 1 come! Andthen the Great Spirit swept him to His bosom. Thus passedGleaming Beetle and these be his possessions. An idle tale, say you? But an Indian legend? Perhaps—-yet it may easily be so. In an Alabama mansion rests to thisday the sword, the coat of mail, the battered casque. If Juanbe not nor ever was, then the tale of Juan at least typifies the ardent, imaginative, daring conquistador of Spain. And itmay well be so that the first of these to press the soil ofAlabama died as did Juan de Venturas, seeking the ShiningTowers of El Dorado!. Battle House, Mobile 18
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