Excerpt from The Quest of El Dorado: The Most Romantic Episode in the History of South American Conquest This little volume is made up almost entirely of a series Of articles which I wrote1 in 1912 for the pan-american Bulletin. Since then so great has been the interest excited in the subject discussed, especially in the United States and South America, that I have frequently been urged to republish the articles in book-form. They now appear with a few changes and additions and will, I trust, be found an acceptable ...
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Excerpt from The Quest of El Dorado: The Most Romantic Episode in the History of South American Conquest This little volume is made up almost entirely of a series Of articles which I wrote1 in 1912 for the pan-american Bulletin. Since then so great has been the interest excited in the subject discussed, especially in the United States and South America, that I have frequently been urged to republish the articles in book-form. They now appear with a few changes and additions and will, I trust, be found an acceptable contribution, brief though it is, on what is undoubtedly the most thrilling and romantic episode in the entire range Of South American history. Only one other epi sode at all approaches it in fascinating interest and that relates to those countless expeditions which, as I have written in my recent work Through South America's Southland, started almost simultaneously from Buenos Aires, from Cordoba, from Valdivia, from Chiloe, all Of them with the knowledge Of the King Of Spain, the Viceroy Of Peru, and the governors Of Chile and Rio de la Plata - expeditions which during nearly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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