The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . rreaches of the Mamore, in the present Re-public of Bolivia, where the expedition dis-banded without accomplishing any morethan had similar undertakings in the north-ern part of the continent/ ^ Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales de An-tonio Herrera^ Cap. XXI, Madrid (1730). CHAPTER VIII EXPEDITION OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH By one of those striking coincidences thatmark the progress of maritime discovery, aswell as that of scientific invention, the verymonth which saw De Veras fleet set sailfrom San L
The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . rreaches of the Mamore, in the present Re-public of Bolivia, where the expedition dis-banded without accomplishing any morethan had similar undertakings in the north-ern part of the continent/ ^ Descripcion de las Indias Occidentales de An-tonio Herrera^ Cap. XXI, Madrid (1730). CHAPTER VIII EXPEDITION OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH By one of those striking coincidences thatmark the progress of maritime discovery, aswell as that of scientific invention, the verymonth which saw De Veras fleet set sailfrom San Lucar also witnessed Sir WalterRaleighs famous expedition starting fromPlymouth and having in view the same ob-ject as the adventurers from Spain. In somerespects this English enterprise was one ofthe most extraordinary episodes in the an-nals of American exploration and discovery,as in its final results it was one of the mosttragic. It is sometimes asserted that onlythe Spaniards could have had part in suchQuixotic undertakings as the pursuit of theGilded Man, but here we have one whom140. Sir Walter Raleigh SIR WALTER RALEIGH Englishmen are wont to laud as The greatRaleigh, as The first apostle and martyrof the British Colonial Empire, as Thefounder of the greater England across theseas, and as one who was as distinguishedfor shrewdness in affairs as he was eminentin clear-sighted political wisdom. Be this as it may, neither he nor others ofhis countrymen, likewise remarkable forbusiness acumen, were proof against the glit-tering mirage of El Dorado, which had al-ready lured so many thousands to prema-ture deaths. With Raleigh, doubtless, one|of the motives that impelled him to under-take the hazardous and exhausting expedi-tion to Guiana was to regain the favor oflueeu Elizabeth, which had recentT^nBeerforfeiEed>-jrhen, too, there was the lure ofadventure and excitement, the love of swift,brilliant action, and the intolerance of thecommon, which were such marked character-
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