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“Director Cook,” I say, addressing him formally, “when I was a little girl you used to make soles for shoes right here on the kitchen table.
—Director Cook —digo, dirigiéndome a él con formalidad—, cuando era pequeña fabricaba usted suelas de zapato en la mesa de la cocina.
Carvajal, whose party had been searching for the kingdom, wrote in his diary, “We reached a [state of] privation so great that we were eating nothing but leather, belts and soles of shoes, cooked with certain herbs, with the result that so great was our weakness that we could not remain standing.” Some four thousand men died during that expedition alone, of starvation and disease and at the hands of Indians defending their territory with arrows dipped in poison. Other El Dorado parties resorted to cannibalism.
Carvajal, cuyo ejército había estado buscando el reino, escribió en su diario: «Alcanzamos un [estado de] privación tan grande que solo comíamos cuero, cinturones y suelas de zapatos, aderezándolo con ciertas hierbas, por lo que nuestra debilidad era tal que no podíamos mantenernos en pie».[13] Unos cuatro mil hombres murieron en esa expedición, debido a la inanición o a las enfermedades, y a manos de los indígenas que defendían su territorio con flechas embadurnadas con veneno. Otras partidas que también iban en busca de El Dorado recurrieron al canibalismo.
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