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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your issue Aug. 10, p. 21, article captioned, "El Dorado Viewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Arkansas (El Dorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Up Goes Oil | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: El Dorado Viewed | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: El Dorado Viewed | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: El Dorado Viewed | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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