(SA) City of Gold

Tonight, Ron Evans takes us to early Peru in his gripping story entitled, The City of Gold. By the early part of the 16th century, the Spanish conquistadores had pillaged the new land of Peru of most of its valuables, particularly gold and silver.

Yet stories persisted of a great citadel of gold hidden somewhere in the high Andes Mountains. The conquerors, having wiped out most of the lowland native Inca population by disease and genocidal wars, were now looking towards the lands beyond the mountains to fulfill Spain's constant demands for more of these precious metals.

Don Manuel Caspol was a man charged by his mother country to see that the bellies of the great treasure galleys, waiting on the eastern side of Panama, would always be filled. He was an impatient and ruthless man who brought war, fear and misery to the people of peace.

The people who hadn't the means to fight back. Or at least. So it seemed. All respect, on that way. I don't think a sure anger will solve the immediate problem.

It expresses the way I feel, Santosh. And surrounded by idiots could not even learn enough by their own endeavors to buy a loaf of bread in Spain. I should send some of them back to start.

Do you include me? You're excellent? No, Santa. I cannot really blame you. But tell me, where do I get more gold and silver? Well, already we've gone as far as confiscating jewelry from about the necks and arms of the inkers.

What else can be done? There three small mines we have. They are working to capacity with great loss of life to the miners. Huh, not that they matter so much. Labor is cheap, plentiful. I recommend an expedition into the mountains to find the city of old, disfabled El Dorado. That is what I have in