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Show GOLD HID INGUATAVITA'S TREASURE THAT LIES DEEP IN! MUD OF VOLCANIC LAKE. Story of the Effort to Recover Fb- ulevt Rkihaa Whtoh Were Catt Inta the Lake Centurle Age. Tha lory of the hunt whlau Ik Pontracior I'mnpany, I.lmltetl. 1indon. ha made for golden traauWta at Idke tluaiavlia In ColomblH, whtra It la mipiKned ihnl ihe nalle Cblb-ohaa Cblb-ohaa lemurle ago iat inllllon of gold and tin-ilini .nine In carrying out ihe peculiar men of their raMBlo" la an Inten-attng one , The companv ha ienl thonaan nf dollar In driuning the late In1 1 they might iiel at ihe lreaiire ! i K)ed to tie bin lid there and now they are pralng rr rain to nil It again, tor when the water had all bean drained off i wa found that the mud , at the ImiiIiiiii wa V feet deep and would hate io lie aided away to get i at the tieattire miiqioeiil to He at the boilom Hut with ihe water drained out and He cloiida withholding their nc imiomeil nmhltiire the equatorial nun 'on bakeil the nurfaie of tho bottom bot-tom a hard a a rm k 1 hie put a mop to the effort to gel .n the treaanre nnd for two ear now ihe company lm been waiting for tain Gold Idol Recovered from Lake. The reanon Tor the belief that tbl like hold untold treaKiire I duo to a religion ceiennmi which the Chlh-rhaa Chlh-rhaa ohaertnl Them- nailte regarded regard-ed the Ijike of (liiatntltu n little pool lu the crater of an ettlnrl tolcann, mime 9 900 'let alette the ea Intel, a tarred The) believed their pro tertlng deity lltnl In It llil deity wa knowu an Kl IVirado, which mean not a I generally helloteil, the golden city hut The (Soldeu Due." To till Oolden One Ihe Chlhehnt rifferad up every ilx month n acrl flee which would make eten the Inoiilli nf a Mouth Mriran millionaire water Ihev ihiew Into the lake at eath of tin-He terenioiil) k nn enormoii amount of gold and pivrlou alone Tin following ni count of one nf thie offetingi glten tit one of the den mlniitx ol ihe Chlbcbnii read iiihii like n uorgeoua rouimirc than n hIIi t tin n nui.t he iimimliereil thai the dlacoterlix ulnce made by nin.iftii to Mime txient at hat tonllrni ihe truth of Ihl atrange leg mil VII it- people." agya the narrator "rear 'img In aolemn proreaalon with kutic and banner Dying, aaaembled from ihe varloua town and tillage lout I he ibore of the lake Pre "0' t ifter a alienee they mado a ri ii uicry, for lhare In a litter on Sc top of one or the eurnmndlng lt 'ley naw a golden man glitter lag tn ihe anntlght Thla waa their kin wi,, had tlrat hern bathed In a Un i t turpentine and then covered 1 l i . leted gold He came ih.wly 111!!! Houtee ol Eng n Who Are Walt ing tor Ram down tin Mil in i emliaiked on a great biM m his r.,i waa a pile of gold and ininili. r ol i mi raid lie wa lol row id In ihe center of the lake, four hargo bcirlng prleta ur roundlBglhe klnai. teanel rheti hrn lrr ere lighted on the bargea, and a gret bunltie on the ahore The a aembM people filed out to their dettV. hll drum and plie mhiiiiI ed, and the prlent mired their hnndi to hen Mo "At a lgn the multltitde turned their lurk to the lake, for thu com mon people might not wltne the aotunl atcrlfice A nuiment Inter there wat a gaaat ilh lidded king gold anil jeweli were all plunged Into the aarretl aatu Tin glided mnniich wam la the lake hating a glitter ling wake In hind him while the peo-' peo-' pie wlltl n-ni wid rlainor threw their peraonal nlfirliig of kohl oter their head Into tin pool Thru king and I latiple belli ting thtlr ulna fur tho j pax lx Bnnih had him uipatlited, I Joined In I git II finlltll |