You may read it yourself. That is my secret--
and yours now!"
And these are the words that turned the current of Ned Napier's
life:
"A relation of Miguel Vasquez soldier of Spain made in the year 1546
concerning the hidden city of Tune Cha. Coming out of Saint Michael
in the Province of Culican I journeyed with Captain Marco de Nica in
1539. At Vacupa I departed from him and remained now six years
among those of this land. Three years I dwelt in the town of Acuco
and heard often of the city of Tune Cha wherein is to be found the
Temple of Turquoise than which none more beautiful is to be found,
not even in Castile itself. Such I have seen with my own eyes. It
standeth within a palace of five hundred rooms or more wherein are
to be found priestly vessels of gold and silver. And this same
palace or City of Priests is compassed about by a massive wall. And
in the center of the palace standeth the Temple, facing the sun
which is the sacred place of al Quivera, Arche and Guyas. And the
walls of this Temple are naught but precious Turquoise even to the
height of forty feet or more, and the pillars thereof are of gold
and silver alternate.
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