Crossword-Solution: DORADOS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

During the last few centuries, when the maps of the world were in great part blank, the search for new worlds was fashionable business, and when such large game was no longer to be found, islands lying unclaimed in the great oceans, inhabited by useful and profitable people to be converted or enslaved, became attractive objects; also new ways to India, seas, straits, El Dorados, fountains of youth, and rivers that flowed over golden sands.

Much as I have travelled in these realms of gold, I have yet seen, upon that map or abstract, names of El Dorados that still haunt the ear of memory, and are still but names.

Rumblesack Shantsee, poets of some note, who used to see visions of Utopia, and pure republics beyond the Western deep: but, finding that these El Dorados brought them no revenue, they turned their vision-seeing faculty into the more profitable channel of espying all sorts of virtues in the high and the mighty, who were able and willing to pay for the discovery.

Shan Tung started for the El Dorados early in the winter, and Tao alone pulled his sledge and outfit.

You wanted two hundred El Dorados, did you not?’ ‘Yes, at four and ninepence.’ ‘Four and ninepence! They are four pound fifteen each.’ ‘But I read that they were only ten shillings originally, and that they had been falling.’ ‘Yes, they have been falling for months.