Around 1650 two Spanish sailors …stumbled out of the forests opposite the island of Chiloe….They reported the existence of a city of silver-roofed palaces, whose inhabitants were white-skinned, spoke Spanish, and were descendents of Pedro de Sarmiento's colony on the Magellan Strait. Their story revived interest in Trapalandia, The Enchanted City of the Caesars, another El Dorado hidden in the Southern Andes. Several expeditions set out to find the city. One report said the doors were studded with jewels, the ploughshares of silver, and the furniture of the humblest dwelling of silver and gold. There was no sickness; old people died as if sleep had come upon them. The men wore tricorn hats, blue coats and yellow capes....(Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia)