In the sixteenth century Europeans presumed that somewhere deep in South America was a vast city called El Dorado that contained unimaginable mineral riches, mainly gold. This presumption started when the conquistadors were destroying and looting the ancient cultures of the Aztecs and Incas. An amazing rumour was told to them by native tribesmen. They said that there was a race, deep in the jungle, whose king was covered with gold dust and who swam in a golden lake. It was the story of ‘El Dorado’(The...
