Author: James Morrison Harris

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-19

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781332709670

Excerpt from Discourse on the Life and Character of Sir Walter Ralegh It may be interesting to preface our rapid sum mary of the efforts of Ralegh, with a brief reference to the geographical position of Guiana and the stories which were current at that period in regard to its wonderful riches. From an excellent work, styled El Dorado, laboriously prepared by Van Heuvel, we learn, that Guiana is that portion of South America, extending along the Atlantic coast, from the Oronoko to the Amazon, and is embraced be tween these Rivers, which are united by the junction of the Cassiqueara with the Amazon. Accord ing to Juan Martinez whose narrative Van Heuvel quotes, the name, El Dorado, which was applied to the City of Manoa, was derived from a certain cus tom of the inhabitants who, when their Emperor caroused with them, all those who pledged him have their bodies covered with a kind of white balsam. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.