El Dorado (Spanish for “the golden one”) is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.
Imagined as a place, El Dorado became a kingdom, an empire, the city of this legendary golden king.
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It is not given to many of us to wander through the waste places of the earth, and too often the explorer leaves no written record of his experiences.
Mr. Up de Graff led an adventurous life in the region drained by the extreme head waters of the Amazon, and he was a keen observer of [...]
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