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After the conquest and plundering
of the Inca empire by Spain...
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...the Indians invented the
legend of El Dorado...
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...a land of gold, located in the
swamps of the Amazon headwaters.
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A large expedition of Spanish
adventurers, led by Gonzalo Pizarro...
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...set off from the Peruvian
highlands in late 1560.
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The only document to survive
from this lost expedition...
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...is the diary of the monk
Gaspar de Carvajal.
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On Christmas day 1560, we reached
the last pass of the Andes...
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... and for the first time looked
down at the legendary jungle.
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I n the morning I read mass, then we
descended through the clouds.