The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . onest English sovereign—a piece of thenew money, of twenty shillings, with HerMajestys picture. It would have indeedbeen well for the gallant dreamer if he hadleft Guiana forever to the sun. ^^ fort and relieve you. (Edwards, Op. cit., Vol. 11,p. 360. ^^ Op. cit. p. 77. CHAPTER IX PERSISTENCE OF BELIEF IN EL DORADO Raleighs ill-fated expedition of 1617was the last of the great ventures in questof El Dorado. The expeditions that weresubsequently fitted out—and there weremany of them—were of minor impor
The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . onest English sovereign—a piece of thenew money, of twenty shillings, with HerMajestys picture. It would have indeedbeen well for the gallant dreamer if he hadleft Guiana forever to the sun. ^^ fort and relieve you. (Edwards, Op. cit., Vol. 11,p. 360. ^^ Op. cit. p. 77. CHAPTER IX PERSISTENCE OF BELIEF IN EL DORADO Raleighs ill-fated expedition of 1617was the last of the great ventures in questof El Dorado. The expeditions that weresubsequently fitted out—and there weremany of them—were of minor importanceand attracted but little attention. But likeall preceding attempts they, too, issued infailure or catastrophe. Yet, notwithstanding the long record ofadventures and disasters, which extendedthrough more than a century, men still con-tinued to believe in Manoa and Lake Parimeand El Dorado as firmly as ever. Raleigh,in his map executed about 1595, had fixedthe location of the capital of the GildedPrince on the eastern shore of Lake Manoa,and subsequent cosmographers kept it on190. BELIEF IN EL DORADO their maps for more than two hundred his map of 1599, which is adorned withfigures of a giant Amazon and of one of theheadless men described by Raleigh, De Bryplaces Manoa on the north of Lake Parime—Raleigh had located it on the east—withthe interesting caption: Manoa oder Dorado,dise tmrdt geacht fur di groste Stadt in derganzen welt—(Manoa or Dorado regardedas the largest city in the entire world). DeLaet, in his map of 1630, moves Manoa orEl Dorado to the west end of the lake justopposite the position assigned it by , in his maps of 1640-1667, followsde Laet, as does also Sanson in 1650 and1656. In Survilles map of 1778, Lake Pa-rime, in addition to the designation by whichit had been so long known, bears a newname, Mar Eldorado, the golden sea. Evenas late as 1806, after Humboldt had provedthat the lake, about which so much had beenimagine
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