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This devoted band called itself the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, and I believe they were sworn to secrecy. Their talk, however, was the talk of sordid buccaneers: it was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage; there was not an atom of foresight or of serious intention in the whole batch of them, and they did not seem aware these things are wanted for the work of the world. To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

'I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,' he said.
'And when they come back, too?' I asked.
'Oh, I never see them,' he remarked; 'and, moreover, the changes take place inside, you know.'