The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... Indians , theirs is also harmonious , and abounds in vowels . The in- fluence of climate may undoubtedly affect lan- guage so far as to modify it , but can never produce a complete change in its primitive struc- ture . The Chilians call ...
... Indians , theirs is also harmonious , and abounds in vowels . The in- fluence of climate may undoubtedly affect lan- guage so far as to modify it , but can never produce a complete change in its primitive struc- ture . The Chilians call ...
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... , massacred all the soldiers employed in the mines . For this purpose they employed the following stratagem : one of the neighbour- ing Indians brought to the commander , Gonzalo 4 Rios , a pot full of gold , telling him 46.
... , massacred all the soldiers employed in the mines . For this purpose they employed the following stratagem : one of the neighbour- ing Indians brought to the commander , Gonzalo 4 Rios , a pot full of gold , telling him 46.
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... Indian Pampas to the north , from Malalque and the frontiers of Mendoza to the Mamilmapu in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres , the whole forming a corporate body with the Puelches and Pehuenches of Maúle , Chillan , and Antuco . So that at ...
... Indian Pampas to the north , from Malalque and the frontiers of Mendoza to the Mamilmapu in the Pampas of Buenos Ayres , the whole forming a corporate body with the Puelches and Pehuenches of Maúle , Chillan , and Antuco . So that at ...
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... Indians who live among the Spaniards , to inform the first of the steps that have been taken , and to request the others to make a common cause with their countrymen . The credentials of these envoys are some small arrows tied to ...
... Indians who live among the Spaniards , to inform the first of the steps that have been taken , and to request the others to make a common cause with their countrymen . The credentials of these envoys are some small arrows tied to ...
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... Indian general , accompanied by the most distin- guished officers of either party , regulate amidst the festivity of the table the terms of the agreement . The frontier was formerly the theatre of these assemblies ; but the two last ...
... Indian general , accompanied by the most distin- guished officers of either party , regulate amidst the festivity of the table the terms of the agreement . The frontier was formerly the theatre of these assemblies ; but the two last ...
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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...