The Legend of El Dorado

The lost city of gold appears to have begun in the 16th century.
Although the story is today usually considered a myth the name
has continued to be used as a reference to any sought after place
of great wealth.
It began when spain attacked Inca in Peru in the 1532.
They finally found so many golds there.
They also take Cuzco city and they again found so many golds there.
They found gold plate on the king's wall and even the water pipes
are made from gold.

The story of El Hombre Dorado as the golden man or gilded man.
This referred to a South American chieftain or king who was
immensely wealthy and covered himself in gold dust.
The reasons for such a royal affectation are unclear - possibly it was
for symbolic, religious reasons (the rituals of the Muisca have
been suggested) or possibly it was just "because he could".
No-one seems to have enquired too deeply into the details of the
legend at the time. Instead the idea of a "Golden King" led naturally
to the idea of a Golden Kingdom and a city or even country where gold
was abundant. This kingdom was allegedly known to the natives as
Manoa or Omoa.

Over the years a number of expeditions attempted to discover El Dorado and the myth probably motivated a lot of the invasions of the native cities by greedy Europeans. The distinction between "explorers", "invaders" and "looters" was far from obvious.
Until one day, Spanish attack Inca and caught their king
for some ransom.
They ask a room which is 6,7 x 5,1 m2 with golds in it as high as
2, 43 m to free their king, Atahuallpa.
But after it is fulfilled, the spanish which is lead by Francisco
Pizarro killed the prisoner.

They became more aggressive until they knew about El Dorado, a name
of an Inca tribe chief.
Every tribe chief has a tradition to waste golds to a lake.
This tradition made the lake full of golds.
It also attract so many people to search the golds in that lake.

In 1545 Herman enslaving some indians to empty the river's water.
He made them to empty it by pail.
It made the water surface down to 2,74 m.
Some golds were successfully taken.

40 years later, there was an effort to empty the river by made a tunnel.
It made the water surface down to 18 m.
And some more golds were taken.

But after that, the lake was more difficult to be explored.
The Colombian government also finally close that place from treasure
hunter by made a regulation.
But it still makes a mystery.
The tradition to celebrate their tribe chief by waste some golds to that
river is still conducted.
That ceremony will never be gone.

Bigfoot!! Bigfoot!!

Bigfoot had been reported first time by England adventurer
B.H. Hodson in 1832. He said that it is like a tall creature,
looks like monkey and it is covered with thick hair.

In 1924, there was a kidnapped by Bigfoot.
The woodcutter, Albert Ostman was kidnapped by a Bigfoot when
he was camping in Vancouver. He is stolen with his sleeping bag
to their nest. He was arrested for 1 week. He was well cared,
given food. They are 4 Bigfoot. They consist of
male Bigfoot 2.43 m, female Bigfoot 1.82 m, and 2 of their
children. He was kidnapped because he believed he was predicted
as a good candidate for Bigfoot child husband.
Otsman tried to escape when Bigfoot investigated his
box of cigarette.

Bigfoot is a huge animal, like gorilla but it is more big.
Their skin color ranges from the deepest black or charcoal
to deep brown. Bigfoot is covered with hair, not fur.
Their height average is 7’ 10".
Their weight is around 650-1000 lbs.

Bigfoot is an omnivore with a substantial carnivorous component
to its diet. They have been observed directly to eat leaves,
berries, fruits, roots, aquatic plants and other vegetable matter,
catch fish, dig up clams or ground squirrels, and prey on poultry,
deer, elk and bear. In addition, they eat other odd items,
such as young evergreen shoots, crayfish, road kill, meat
or fish from human storage sites, hunter-killed game animals
(they sometimes snatched in front of the hunter),
and occasional garbage.
They take an occasional livestock animal,
but not with sufficient frequency as to produce organized
persecution.

They use branches and rocks to hit trees or other rocks and
they throw rocks and other objects out of hiding to scare people
out of their territory (as do chimpanzees).
Rare reports indicate the possibility of the Bigfoot using
sticks to kill birds or mammals or to dig in the ground with them.

Bigfoot is distributed across the North American continent,
from high northern latitudes in Alaska and the Yukon to occasional
sightings near river courses and forests in New Mexico and Texas.
Their highest concentration appears to lie in Washington, Oregon
and northern California, although the chances of potentially more
sightings in the wilds of Canada are lessened by the lower human
population density. Total numbers for the species in North America
have been estimated by various approaches to be from
a few thousand up to 10,000. By comparison, black bears number
between 650,000 and 700,000 in North America.

Is Bigfoot smarter than we are?

We have night-vision equipment and motion-triggered cameras.
Bigfoot traps have even been constructed, going back as far as
1974. Many other types of wild animals have been spotted with
night vision and photographed with motion-triggered gadgets.
Such animals – even the wiliest in the forest – have been trapped
and captured alive. And, of course, man routinely hunts and kills
them.

So why haven't we captured one? Why isn't there better
photographic evidence? Why have we not found any dead bodies?
Surely, with all of the technology we have at
our disposal – products of our intellectual superiority over
the rest of the animal kingdom – we should be able to capture
or at least photograph clearly one of these creatures.
Why hasn't it happened?