The Book of Buried Treasure

Captain Kidd, the plate fleet of Vigo, the pirates’ hoard of Trinidad, the galleon of Tobermory Bay — the famous treasure stories, followed to the documents that either support them or quietly demolish them.

The Quest of El Dorado

4 pages in this part of The Book of Buried Treasure.

The Quest of El Dorado

IN our time the golden word Eldorado has come to mean the goal of unattained desires, the magic country of dreams that forever lies just…

The Quest of El Dorado: Oviedo

THE QUEST OF EL DORADO 345 Another and more imaginative version of the story was told to Oviedo 3 by divers Spaniards whom he met in San…

The Quest of El Dorado: Guianians

THE QUEST OF EL DORADO 349 much favored by the soldiers, had all the means possible procured for his life; but it could not be obtained in…

The Quest of El Dorado: Raleigh

After mentioning in detail the several ill-fated expeditions of the Spanish to find the El Dorado, Raleigh reviews the mass of evidence in…

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