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YERMAH THE DORADO
The Story of a Lost Race

FRONA EUNICE WAIT COLBURN

“It requires a great many shovelfuls of earth to buy truth”

—Swiss Proverb

NEW YORK

THE ALICE HARRIMAN COMPANY

Copyrighted 1897

By FRONA EUNICE WAIT

Revised and Re-copyrighted 1913

By FRONA EUNICE WAIT COLBURN

THIS VOLUME

IS DEDICATED TO THE

WHITE KNIGHTS

OF ALL LANDS AND OF ALL THE AGES

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

MY FATHER

JAMES LAFAYETTE SMITH

—Frona Eunice Wait Colburn

YERMAH THE DORADOThe Story of a Lost Race