The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . the Deep, p. 76, by Sir FrederickTreves, London (1908). 175 THE QUEST OF EL DOllxVDO Dorado, but he would own to no reaching the river Caroni, a tributaryof the Orinoco, and sounding an old In-dian chieftain regarding the army of the em-peror of Guiana, while some of his cap-taines garoused of his (the chiefs) wine tillthey were reasonable pleasant, he concludedthat it would be unsafe to invade the Incasempire without a much larger force thanhe then had under his command. Besidesthis, he
The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . the Deep, p. 76, by Sir FrederickTreves, London (1908). 175 THE QUEST OF EL DOllxVDO Dorado, but he would own to no reaching the river Caroni, a tributaryof the Orinoco, and sounding an old In-dian chieftain regarding the army of the em-peror of Guiana, while some of his cap-taines garoused of his (the chiefs) wine tillthey were reasonable pleasant, he concludedthat it would be unsafe to invade the Incasempire without a much larger force thanhe then had under his command. Besidesthis, he learned that there was a detachmentof Spanish troops coming against him fromCaracas and New Granada, and being shortof ammunition, he judged it the better partof valor to rejoin his squadron at Trinidadwith the least possible delay. Shortly afterwards he was back in Eng-land, where his reception was far differentfrom what he thought it would be on his de-parture thence six months before. Then heconfidently expected to return with his shipsladen with treasure, and to be restored to the176. The These, says Raleigh, were a nation of people whose headesappeare not aboTe their shoulders, which, though it may bethought a meere fable, yet for mine owne parte I am re-solved it is true. * * * They are reported to have their eyesin their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of theirbreasts, and that a long train of haire groweth backwardbetween their shoulders. Shakespeare had apparently readRaleighs work, as is evinced from the following well-knownpassage: The cannibals, that each other eat. The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow between their shoulders. SIR WALTER RALEIGH favor of his Queen by announcing that hehad added to her diadem what was thence-forth to constitute its most precious jewel—the great and beautiful empire of far was this from being the case that, notcounting the great monetary losses incurredby his luckless venture, he returned dis
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