SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE FICTION OF 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 OF 



EL DOR, ADO. 



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 



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