Word: dorado
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Your issue Aug. 10, p. 21, article captioned, "El Dorado Viewed...
Arkansas (El Dorado...
Actual El Dorado is bleak, barren, devoid of game, but infested with "mosquitoes an inch long-armed with weapons which seemed capable of penetrating the stoutest khaki cloth, and were." The place is at Lat. 2:25:30 North, Long. 63:45:31 West, in Brazil just east of the Venezuelan boundary. It is due south of Halifax, just above the Equator, and about 2,000 mi. from the Orinoco delta...
...Dickey, who before he married and became a professional explorer, practiced medicine for 25 years in northern and western South America, named the Parima peak from which he saw long-sought El Dorado, the George G. Heye Mountain. That was to honor the important backer of this, his fifth expedition up the Orinoco -George Gustav Heye, 56, retired Manhattan electrical engineer and banker who for 35 years has been assembling relics of North, Central & South American Indians and who, with Archer Milton Huntington,† in 1922 created the great Heye Foundation & Museum of the American Indian in Manhattan...
...Dickey was as cryptic as were the old Caribs concerning El Dorado. He wirelessed: "We . . . have made a discovery of such startling geographical importance that I must be sure of it beyond the slightest risk of error before I dare have it put in print." He said nothing about finding any gold...