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” (Hak. 3. 634.) Raleigh then describes the splendor Peru, which he says is far surpa ed by that of El Dorado, and gives the following narrative of a Spaniard who was supposed to have been in the city: “He avowed at his death that he entered the city at Noon and that he travelled all that day till night thorow the city, and the next day from Sun of.., Sun setting yer he came to the palace of Inga. This Martinez was he that Christened the city of Manoa by the name of El Dorado, upon this occasion Those Guianians, rising to.....:. and also the borderers, and all other in that tract which I have scene are marvellous great drunkards, in which vice I think no nation can compare with them and at the times of their solemne feasts, when the emperour carowseth with his captaines, tributaries, and govern ours, the maner is thus: All those that pledge him are first stripped naked, and their bodies anointed all over with a kind of white balsamum, by them called curca, of which there is great plenty, and yet very deare amongst them, and it is of all other the most precious, whereof wee have had good: experience: when they are anointed all oyer, certeine servants of the emperour, having prepared golde made into fine powder, blow it thorow hollow canes upon their naked bodies, untill they be all shining from the foot to the head and in this sort they sit drinking by twenties and hundreds, and continue in drunkenne Upon this sight, sometimes sixe or seven dayes together. and for the abundance of golde which he saw in the city, the images of golde in their temples, the plates, armours, and shields of gold which they use in the warres, he called it El Dorado.”:... (Hak. 3. 636.) Eldune. Hist. Brit. (4) 5. 176. Milton follows Simeon of Durham (chap. 43) in placing Eldune near Melrose, Scotland. The Eildon Hills are supposed to preserve the name. Eleale. P. L. 1. 411. A town of Moab, always a ociated in the Bible with Heshbon. Eusebius places it one Roman mile north of Heshbon. (Ono mas Numbers 32. 3.) See Numbers 32. 3, 37; Isaiah 15. 4. tic on, ch109.xhtml e 126