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The Golden Magnet, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Golden Magnet
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: March 24, 2008 [EBook #24909]
Language: English
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The Golden Magnet
CHAPTER ONE.
INTRODUCTORY.
Daybreak in the Incas' realm on the far western shores, known to our fathers as the great wonderland--the great country discovered by adventurous mariners, and thought of, dreamed of, seen through a golden mist raised by the imagination--a mist which gave to everything its own peculiar hue; and hence the far-off land was whispered of as "El Dorado," the gilded, "the Golden Americas," and the country whose rivers ran over golden sand, whose rocks were veined with the coveted ore; and nations vied with each other in seeking to humble the haughty Spaniard, whose enterprise had gained him the strongest footing in the coveted region.
Daybreak at Tehutlan, the Incas' city, in the year 1533, and the peaks of the mighty mountains that appeared to pierce the bright blue sky, appearing to bear out the fabulous belief of the eastern lands, for their icy summits glowed, a