The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . f furniture in themwherewith they were so pestered and un-sauery that, what with victuals being most159 THE QUEST OF EL DORADO fish, with the weete clothes of so many menthrust together and the heate of the sunne,I will undertake there was neuer any prisonin England that coulde be founde more un-sauery and lothsome, especiallj^ to my self,who had for many yeares before beene dietedand cared for in a sort farre differing. ® But this was not all. The fortune-seekerssoon found themselves lost in the tort
The quest of El Dorado; the most romantic episode in the history of South American conquest . f furniture in themwherewith they were so pestered and un-sauery that, what with victuals being most159 THE QUEST OF EL DORADO fish, with the weete clothes of so many menthrust together and the heate of the sunne,I will undertake there was neuer any prisonin England that coulde be founde more un-sauery and lothsome, especiallj^ to my self,who had for many yeares before beene dietedand cared for in a sort farre differing. ® But this was not all. The fortune-seekerssoon found themselves lost in the tortuousmazes of the delta of the great river, and,had they not been fortunate in securing anative pilot, they might haue wandred awhole yeare in that labyrinth of rivers. For I know all the earth [the great navi-gator writes without exaggeration in this in-stance] doth not yeeld the like confluence ofstreams and branches, the one crossing theother so many times, and all so faire andlarge and so like one to another, as no mancan tell which to take; and if we went by the = Op. cit, p. 10. 160. Houses op the Indians on the Lower Orinoco Raleigh called these lodians Tinitinas, and states that duringthe winter, when the river is in flood, they dwell upon thetrees, where they huild very artificial! townes and story of Raleighs, which had no more foundation in factthan many of his other yarns, was generally accepted as trueuntil only a few years ago. Even the great Humboldt, whonever visited the delta of the Orinoco, repeats the story withembellishments of bis own. SIR WALTER RALEIGH sunne or compasse, hoping thereby to go di-rectly one way or another, yet that waie wewere also carried in a circle amongst multi-tudes of Hands and every Hand so borderedwith high trees as no man could see anyfarther than the bredth of the riuer or lengthof the breach. « Then, in addition to this difficulty, therewas the powerful current of the river to over-come, which they struggled agains
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