CONCERNING DORADO, 3 



abovementioned monftrous hills, he arrived in a fpa- 

 cious plain ; but neither found Dorado, nor yet inha- 

 bitants. Here, however, he built a city; which, 

 though a place of no great confequence, is ftill in be* 

 ing, under the name of St. lago de las Atalayas. 

 Thence he bent his courfe through Airiko, or the 

 great foreft; and, without having drawn the leaft uti- 

 lity from his travels, and with the lofs of the greateft 

 part of his people, amidft unfpeakable hardlhips he 

 reached Timana. Thus terminated one of the moft 

 celebrated expeditions in fearch of Dorado. 



About the fame time, a fimilar attempt was made, 

 in the hope of out-doing Quefada, by another Spa- 

 niard, of the name of Philip Utre. He took his de- 

 parture from Corro, a town in the province of Vene- 

 zuela, with a company of a hundred and twenty men, 

 and thought himfelf already at the fpot where an im~ 

 menlity of treafure awaited his grafp, when he heard, 

 from a cacique, of the fate of Quefada, his envied 

 brother projector. He thence purfued his way along 

 the Guaviari, but he had fcarcely reached the firft 

 village of the Omaguis, when he was fet upon by the 

 favages to the number of 15,000, who were, however, 

 put to flight by one of his companions, named Pedro 

 Limpion, at the head of no more than thirty men. 

 But Utre himfelf, being dangeroufly wounded in the 

 attack, was obliged to return to Corro, where he died. 



So many unfuccefsful attempts were yet unable to 

 extinguifh the hope of detecting a Dorado in the 

 breads of the covetous Spaniards. About the year 

 1596, according to the relation of Torrubia, a multi- 

 tude of perfons embarked in the fame delign, from 



b % one 



