Emperor. The emperor after he had beheld him, knew him to be
a Christian (for it was not long before that his brethren Guascar[6]
and Atabalipa[6] were vanished [Transcriber's note: vanquished?] by the
Spaniards in Peru) and caused him to be lodged in his palace and well
entertained. He lived seven months in Manoa, but was not suffered to
wander into the country anywhere. He was also brought thither all the
way blindfold, led by the Indians, until he came to the entrance of
Manoa itself, and was fourteen or fifteen days in the passage. He
avowed at his death that he entered the city at noon, and then they
uncovered his face, and that he traveled all that day till night
through the city and the next day from sun rising to sun setting ere he
came to the palace of Inca.

"After that Martinez had lived seven months in Manoa, and began to
understand the language of the country, Inca asked him whether he
desired to return into his own country, or would willingly abide with
him. But Martinez not desirous to stay, obtained the favor of Inca to
depart; with whom he sent divers Guianians to conduct him to the river
of Orinoco, all laden with as much gold as they could carry, which he
gave to Martinez at his departure. But when he was arrived near the
river's side, the borderers which are called Orenoqueponi robbed him
and his Guianians of all the treasure (the borderers being at that time
at war, which Inca had not conquered) save only of two great bottles of
gourds, which were filled with beads of gold curiously wrought, which
those Orenoqueponi thought had been no other thing than his drink or
meat, or grain for food, with which Martinez had liberty to pass.

"And so in canoes he fell down from the river of Orinoco to Trinidad
and from thence to Margarita, and also to Saint Juan de Puerto Eico,
where remaining a long time for passage into Spain, he died. In the
time of his extreme sickness, and when he was without hope of life,
receiving the Sacrament at the hands of his confessor, he delivered
these things, with the relation of his travels, and also called for his
calabazas or gourds of the gold beads which he gave to the church and
friars to be prayed for.

"This Martinez was he that christened the city of Manoa by the name of
El Dorado, and as Berreo informed me, upon this occasion; Those
Guianians, and also the borderers, and all others in that tract which I
have seen, are marvelous great drunkards; in which vice,