Editing Candide (section)

=== Chapters XI–XX ===
The old woman reciprocates by revealing her own tragic life: born the daughter of [[Pope Urban X]] and the Princess of [[Palestrina]], she was kidnapped and enslaved by [[Barbary pirates]], witnessed violent civil wars in [[Morocco]] under the bloodthirsty king [[Ismail Ibn Sharif|Moulay Ismaïl]] (during which her mother was [[Hanged, drawn and quartered|drawn and quartered]]), suffered constant hunger, nearly died from a [[Plague (disease)|plague]] in [[Algiers]], and had a buttock cut off to feed starving [[Janissary|Janissaries]] during the [[Azov campaigns (1695–1696)|Russian capture of Azov]]. After traversing all the [[Russian Empire]], she eventually became a servant of Don Issachar and met Cunégonde.

The trio arrives in [[Buenos Aires]], where Governor Don Fernando d'Ibarra y Figueroa y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza asks to marry Cunégonde. Just then, an ''[[alcalde]]'' (a Spanish magistrate) arrives, pursuing Candide for killing the Grand Inquisitor. Leaving the women behind, Candide flees to [[Paraguay]] with his practical and heretofore unmentioned manservant, Cacambo.

[[File:Moreau Sucre crop.jpg|left|thumb|1787 illustration of Candide and Cacambo meeting a maimed slave from a [[sugarcane mill]] near [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Suriname]].]]

At a [[border post]] on the way to Paraguay, Cacambo and Candide speak to the [[commandant]], who turns out to be Cunégonde's unnamed brother. He explains that after his family was slaughtered, the [[Jesuit]]s' preparation for his burial revived him, and he has since joined the order.<ref name = ayer143145/> When Candide proclaims he intends to marry Cunégonde, her brother attacks him, and Candide runs him through with his [[rapier]]. After lamenting all the people (mainly priests) he has killed, he and Cacambo flee. In their flight, Candide and Cacambo come across two naked women being chased and bitten by a pair of monkeys. Candide, seeking to protect the women, shoots and kills the monkeys, but is informed by Cacambo that the monkeys and women were probably lovers.

Cacambo and Candide are captured by Oreillons, or Orejones; members of the [[Inca Empire|Inca]] nobility who widened the lobes of their ears, and are depicted here as the fictional inhabitants of the area. Mistaking Candide for a Jesuit by his robes, the Oreillons prepare to cook Candide and Cacambo; however, Cacambo convinces the Oreillons that Candide killed a Jesuit to procure the robe. Cacambo and Candide are released and travel for a month on foot and then down a river by canoe, living on fruits and berries.<ref name="genius.com">{{Cite web | url=https://genius.com/Voltaire-candide-xviii-annotated | title=Voltaire – Candide XVIII}}</ref>

After a few more adventures, Candide and Cacambo wander into [[El Dorado]], a geographically isolated [[utopia]] where the streets are covered with precious stones, there exist no priests, and all of the king's jokes are funny.<ref>Aldridge (1975), p. 254</ref> Candide and Cacambo stay a month in El Dorado, but Candide is still in pain without Cunégonde, and expresses to the king his wish to leave. The king points out that this is a foolish idea, but generously helps them do so. The pair continue their journey, now accompanied by one hundred red pack sheep carrying provisions and incredible sums of money, which they slowly lose or have stolen over the next few adventures.

Candide and Cacambo eventually reach [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Suriname]] where they split up: Cacambo travels to Buenos Aires to retrieve Lady Cunégonde, while Candide prepares to travel to Europe to await the two. Candide's remaining sheep are stolen, and Candide is fined heavily by a Dutch magistrate for petulance over the theft. Before leaving Suriname, Candide feels in need of companionship, so he interviews a number of local men who have been through various ill-fortunes and settles on a man named Martin.