Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-09-09

PAPER NUMBER TWO.


inc collected from Antonio de
Rerrio. whom he took prisoner in his
;ncursion on the island of Trinidad
in 1895. and Others, the sum of the
knowledge possessed at that time
upon the subject of Guiana and the
adjacent countries, he set forth on
his celebrate expedition. He then
entertained no doubts of the exist
ence of the two great lakes, and the
kingdom of the famous Inca, which
was supposed to have been founded
near the sources of the river Esse
-quibo. Passing the river Guavapo,
and the plains Of Chaymus, Raleigh
stopped at More9uito, where he was
informed by an old man that there
was no doubt that foreign nations had
entered Guiana. The cataracts of Ca
rony, river which was supposed to
be the shortest way to Macureguari
and Manoa, towns situated on the
banks of Lakes Cassipa and Rupunu-
wini, or Dorado, terminated this eX-
.pedition.
We must be permitted to doubt
almost every assertion made by
Raleigh with regard to the results of
this voyage. He was determined
that his cause should lose nothing
from excessive modesty, and conse-
quently the style in which he speaks
of Manoa is highly inflated. He
heard of inland seas which he com
pares to the Caspian, and of " the
imperial and golden city of Manoa."
He styles the ruler of the magniti-
cent country, I" the emperor Iaga Of
Guyana and says that ne had
erected palaces of the most dazzling
magnificence, said to surpass by far
the superb palaces Of his Peruvian
ancestors. Raleigh, in his endeavors
to influence the queen, neglected
neither the arts of flattery nor the
embellishments of fiction. He says
that to the barbarous nations he en-
countered, he showed the picture of
the queen, at which they exhibited
transports Of joy" He asserts that
he WAS informed that at the time OF
the conquest of Peru, there were
prophesies "in their chieiest tenn
plcs,n which foretold the loss Of the
empire and the restoration Of the
Ingas Gncas) by Elgiishmen. He
tells her m jcsty that the Inca would
probably pay yearly to Engiand tae
sum of three hundred Thousand
pounds sterling, If she would place
in his towns garris lus Of three or four
thousand English, uader pretense If
defending him against all enemies.
"lt seemath to IN he adds, tn At
this empire of Guilnt is Reserved fJr
the English natioh." From 1895 t.
1917, Raleigh made four successive
voyages to the lower Orinoco. These
attempts, which, however taey were
represented ia England, were we'll
understood in So6th America to nave
been lruitiess, dlnlped the ardlr Of
adyenture.s wh0 had formed pro
.jects for catering ana coaqnnring
FL Dorado. From this time ihers up-
peared noue oi tAAse great c1m sinJ-
tons and important expeditions
which at frat owed their origin II
warm chimcrich IDEAS; but at the
same tine, the gniden hopes Which
had been awakened did not c1tiraiy
disappear, snd s,iitsry e.terprisrs
We're occasionally uadc.tnkcG, atacr
the saactiol of vtriaus proyiuci.
governors.
In 1861 and 1888, Acana ami
Frl,z. Two moaks, severaliy under
took Journeys TO the lin:s OF the
Manoas, whicl were tloasut TO De
rife with gola, AMI 10y the ma, ,niii
cent accounts wniin they pat IN
circulatipa, contrifed " iult'na
anew the lma3iantions Of a3ven-
turers. Very recently ii was be-
lieved that the plains of Macas, to
the east of the Cordilleras, contain
ed tho ruins of Logrono, a town
situated in gold region OF pro-
digious value. La 1740, IN idea
was current that by going up the
river Essequibo, Dorai1 might be
reached from Dutch Guiana. The
Imagination OF Don Manuel Cen
turion, governor of San Thome
del Angostura, having been warned
by the current fables OF tAe splen-
did lake of Mlnoa, the very exist
ence of which WIS apocryphal, he
determined to set on foot some
serious invests cations. He used
oil his powers TO awaken in the
minis Of the colDnists an araor
equal 20 his own IA fpurucuto
Indian, by name Arim licaipi, de-
scended the bio Carony, and, for
reasons of his own, by the most
eare-faced impositions, induced the
Spaniards to believe thai The tales
OF Ell Dorado hardly did justice
to the splendor of the country of
the Great Moxo. He declared that
the whitish light in the clouds of
Magellan, in the southern sky, was
the reflection of the silvery rocks
around which the waves of Lake
Parma swept. This was describ-
ing in o very poeGcal manner"
says Humboldt, "the splendor of
the micaceous and talclky states of
his country"
A well-ineaning Indian chief,
popularity termed Captain. Jurado,
endeavored to check the progress
of the delusion, and tried to un-
deceive Centurion. The adven-
turers embarked upon the Cuara
and Rio Paragua, but not only
were disappointed in their expecta-
'tions, but encountered the most
dreadful sufferings, which occa-
stoned the death of several hun
dred persons. Notwithstanding
the advantageous effects of these
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