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From boys and girls all over the U.S. the scrawled letters poured in, some peremptory, some urgent-all rather vague. "Dear Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce," wrote one boy from Reno. "We are reading about coal. Could you send some pamphlets and a piece of coal." A pupil in El Dorado, Ark. asked for "pictures and postcards." He did not say what sort of pictures or of what, but he did provide one pertinent bit of information: "I am in Mrs. Jackson's room." Said a brief note from Southwick, Mass.: "Will you send me all the information about your...
...looking for in painting." Thanks to the generous mistress of a Breton pension, Gauguin painted in peace on a full belly. Restlessly driven back to Paris and semi-starvation, the man who had once speculated so brilliantly on the stock exchange was now looking for common stock in El Dorado...
Geologist Lewis chiseled out some blocks of rock and headed back to his laboratory. In one of the chunks he found a paleontological El Dorado: the skull of a part-reptile, part-mammal tritylodontoid, a transitional creature that lived about 165 million years ago when mammals were just evolving from reptiles. Only a few small tritylodontoid fragments have been found in the old world; none at all had been found in the new world...
Facsimile of El Dorado. Clark finished his trip with a green-eyed American girl named Inez Pokorny, who was hunting gold and was stranded in Iquitos, too. Their quest almost ended prematurely one night when Clark was bitten by a poisonous snake, a nacanaca, and was only saved because his Indian paddlers went promptly to work with the native treatment: a brew of herbs injected near the wound by repeated jabs of a thorn...
...Clark satisfied himself that he had found, on the banks of the Chiriaca River, a far western tributary of the Amazon, a reasonable facsimile of El Dorado. There, he traded all his spare equipment for 50 Ibs. of gold dust and nuggets sifted from the river gravel by friendly headhunters. On the journey out of the jungle, he and his companion were forced to bury about half the gold because it was too heavy to carry farther. Living comfortably in San Francisco now, Clark has never gone back to pick...