The Quest of El Dorado the Most Romantic Episode in the History of South Americ
The Quest of El Dorado the Most Romantic Episode in the History of South Americ
John Augustine Zahm
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Further incredulity would be tantamount to denying the validity of human testimony and the evidence of the senses. "For on the fifteenth day, " as he assures us, "we discouered a farre off the mountaines of Guiana, to our great joy. " Moreover, did not his captive De Berrio, who pompously styled himself the governor of Trinidad, Guiana, and El Dorado, have actually in his possession documentary evi- dence of the vast treasures of Manoa? Had he not the testimony of one, Juan Martines, 165 THE QU...EST OF EL DORADO who had spent seven months in this great city being lodged and entertained all the while in the Emperor's own palace? And had not this eyewitness, in speaking of the magnitude of the city, solemnly averred on his deathbed that "he entered the city at noon, and that he traveled al that daie til night thorow the citie and the next daie from sun rising to sun setting ere he came to the palace of the Inga"? Had he not been a spectator of the abundance of gold which its inhabitants possessed?
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