The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this 15.
... two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this 15.
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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this may be , it is certain that this species of camel was employed antecedent to that period as beasts of burden , and the transition from carriage to ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this may be , it is certain that this species of camel was employed antecedent to that period as beasts of burden , and the transition from carriage to ...
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... European settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within sight of each other , precisely in the manner of the German settlements in the time of 18 -Political Establishments; Government Arts, ·
... European settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within sight of each other , precisely in the manner of the German settlements in the time of 18 -Political Establishments; Government Arts, ·
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... Europeans who visited these countries , attracted by other objects of far less interest , thought little or nothing of those that merit the attention of every observing mind , on visiting an unknown people . From thence it has happened ...
... Europeans who visited these countries , attracted by other objects of far less interest , thought little or nothing of those that merit the attention of every observing mind , on visiting an unknown people . From thence it has happened ...
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... European blood spilt in Chili , a country afterwards so copiously watered with it . On being informed of this unfortunate acci- dent , calculated to destroy the exalted opinion which he wished to inspire of his soldiers , Almagro ...
... European blood spilt in Chili , a country afterwards so copiously watered with it . On being informed of this unfortunate acci- dent , calculated to destroy the exalted opinion which he wished to inspire of his soldiers , Almagro ...
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admapu Angol ANN RADCLIFFE Antiguenu appeared appointed Arau Araucanians Arauco Archipelago arms arrival attack Author battle besieged Bio-bio Boards Brit called Canete canians Caupolican cavalry CHAP chief Chili Chilian Chiloé civil Colocolo command containing Copiapo Crit Cujo death defeated Don Garcia enemy English Engravings European expedition favour foolscap 8vo fortress garrison give governor Grammar History horse Huilliches hundred illustrated Indians inhabitants island Jago killed language large vols Lautaro LINDLEY MURRAY Lumaco manner Maúle military mountains nation natives neral nians notwithstanding observed occasion officers Osorno particles peace Pedro Pehuenches person Peru Peruvians Plates POEMS possess present Price 12s principal prisoners Promaucians provinces Puelches Puren rendered retired river ROBERT SOUTHEY royal Second Edition sent settlements shore siege soldiers Spain Spaniards tained tenses thousand tion Toqui tribes troops Tucapel Ulmenes Valdivia valiant valour verb Villagran Volume whence
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Page 388 - F., Travels in South America, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804; containing a description of the Captain-Generalship of Caraccas, and an account of the discovery, conquest, topography, legislature, commerce, finance, and natural productions of the country; with a view of the manners and customs of the Spaniards and the native Indians, translated from the French, two volumes, London, 1807.
Page 193 - A detachment of cavalry was immediately sent under the guidance of this spy, and at day break made prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gallant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, who would not abandon him. His wife, who never ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that belonged to a coward. The detachment returned to the city amidst the rejoicings of the populace,...
Page 160 - There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis Aiguirre, had precedence of Villagran in the government, but their absence at the time of the first viceroy's decease, left him without a rival. The return of Aiguirre to Chili threatened to involve...