El Dorado or governor of Guatavita: There is also an account, titled "The Quest of El Dorado", by poet-priest and historian of the Conquest Juan de Castellanos, who had served under Jiménez de Quesada in his campaign against the Muisca, written in the mid-16th century but not published until 1850: According to Spanish historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557): He went about all covered with powdered gold, as casually as if it were powdered salt. For it seemed to him that to wear any other finery was less beautiful, and that to put on ornaments or arms made of gold worked by
Raleigh's El Dorado Expedition to Guiana" after his return. De Berrío the same year also set out with a Spanish expedition of his own with 470 men under command of to search for El Dorado. As they advanced further inland however the Amerindians now allied to England then attacked and destroyed Vera and Berrio's entire force losing 350 men. The rest tried to retreat but soon after disease and famine reduced the survivors to only a handful of men. In 1617, Raleigh having been released from prison by order of King James I returned to continue his quest for El Dorado on a second