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^paniards overthrew the throne of Cuzco, an ancient 
prophecy -^as found, which predicted that the dynasty of 
]> ® , V^cas would one day owe its restoration "to Great 
j. _ aui;” he advises, that, “on pretext of defending the 
erritory against external enemies, garrisons of three or four 
English should be placed in the towns of the Inca, 
j,j.'S'ng this prince to pay a contribution annually to Queen 
U '^^li of three hundred thousand pounds slerling;” 
th like a man who foresees the future, that “ all 
e ^ist countries of South America will one day belong to 
tke English nation.”* 
11 ''0''^nges of Ilalcigh to the Lower Orinoco suc- 
,, ®?ed each other from 1.505 to 1G17. After all these 
j^^eiess attempts, the ardour of research after El Dorado 
foi^ cliiT^iiiished. No expeditions have since been 
a numerous band of colonists ; but some solitary 
‘ have been encouraged by tlio governors of the 
notions spread by the journeys of Father 
1 1688, and Father Fritz'iii 1(5:17, to the auriferous 
, ?, 11^® Manoas of Jurubesh, and to the Laguna do Oro, 
„j^^g^’^^6uted to renew the ideas of El Dorado in the Portu- 
At r Spanish colonies north and south of the equator, 
wlin in the kingdom of Quito, I met witli some men, 
qP eiuployed by the bishop) Marfil to seek at the east 
tow ^n''*iill®i'as, in the plains of Macas, tlie ruins of the 
coiif+ liogrono, which was believed to be situate in a 
J'nli in gold. AVc learn by the jom-nal of Ilorts- 
174()^’'Pi I have often quoted, tli.at it was supposed, in 
’ 1“' Eorado might bo reached from Dutch Guiana by 
going 
the 
SO ad- 
^ S np the Eio Essequibo. Don Manuel Ocuturion 
'nhed a them her Majesty’s picture, wliich tlie Casigui s 
thereof*' ''“'^aafed, as it had been easy to have brought them idolatrous 
others } t ■ ^ further remember that Berreo confessed to me and 
''as foi 1 ” ^ Ptafest before the majesty of God to be true), that there 
'educed' t prophecies at Peru (at such a time as (ho empire was 
others wh” t r obedience) in their cliiefest temple, among divers 
those /ii ' mrcsliowcd the losseof the said empyre, that from Inglatien'a 
yield again in time to come restored. The higa wcwld 
yearelv as')" ^ .hy composition many hundred thousand pounds 
Penses^ of *** ®*tfend him against all enemies abroad and defray the ex - 
this Pn * ®f 3000 or 4000 soldiers. It seemeth to me that 
p. 7^ Guiana is reserved for the English nation.” (Raleigh 
