Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . PROCESSION IN HONOR OF THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA. the royal chariot was a throne with four pillars and a canopyoverhead, drawn by white horses. Elizabeth knelt at thealtar and audibly acknowledged the Almighty as her delivererfrom the rage of the enemy. The people were exhorted torender thanks to the Most High, whose elements—fire, wind, andstorm—had wrought more destruction to the foe. than the valorof their navy or the strength of their wooden SIR WALTER
Man upon the sea : or, a history of maritime adventure, exploration, and discovery, from the earliest ages to the present time ... . PROCESSION IN HONOR OF THE DEFEAT OF THE ARMADA. the royal chariot was a throne with four pillars and a canopyoverhead, drawn by white horses. Elizabeth knelt at thealtar and audibly acknowledged the Almighty as her delivererfrom the rage of the enemy. The people were exhorted torender thanks to the Most High, whose elements—fire, wind, andstorm—had wrought more destruction to the foe. than the valorof their navy or the strength of their wooden SIR WALTER RALEIGH. CHAPTEE XXIX. THE FICTION OP EL DORADO—MANOA—DESCRIPTION OF ITS FABLED SPLEN-DORS—ATTEMPTS OF THE SPANIARDS TO DISCOVER IT—SIR WALTER RALEIGH HIS VOYAGE TO GUIANA HIS ACCOUNT OF THE ORINOCO—HIS DESCRIP-TION OF THE SCENERY—HIS RETURN—HIS SECOND VOYAGE EXPEDITION TO NEWFOUNDLAND—HIS DEATH—MODERN INTERPRETATION OF THE LEGEND OFEL DORADO. The mines of the precious metals which the Spaniards had discovered in Peru, the wealth which they annually brought home in treasure-ships to the mother-country, together with the exaggerated accounts given by Spanish authors respecting the splendor and the civilization of the empire of the Incas, had now begun to excite the cupidity and inflame the imagination of every other people in Europe. It was known that, at the time 267 268 MAN UPON THE SEA. of the conquest of Peru by Pizarro, a large number of the nativesescaped into the interior; and rumor added that one of the sonsof the reigning Inca had withdrawn across
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