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.