The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru the second volume of the same author , in which he has brought the subject down to a late period . 167533 In this hope I was disappointed . This vo- lume a 3.
... the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru the second volume of the same author , in which he has brought the subject down to a late period . 167533 In this hope I was disappointed . This vo- lume a 3.
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... Peru about the year 1450 , being informed of the na- tural advantages possessed by Chili , resolved to attempt the conquest of it . With this intent he marched with a powerful army to the frontiers of that kingdom ; but , either through ...
... Peru about the year 1450 , being informed of the na- tural advantages possessed by Chili , resolved to attempt the conquest of it . With this intent he marched with a powerful army to the frontiers of that kingdom ; but , either through ...
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... Peru . Subsistence , the source of population , being thus secured , the country , as before remarked , became rapidly peopled under the influence of so mild a climate ; whence it appears , that the first writers who treated of Chili ...
... Peru . Subsistence , the source of population , being thus secured , the country , as before remarked , became rapidly peopled under the influence of so mild a climate ; whence it appears , that the first writers who treated of Chili ...
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... Peru , who keep account by it of the number of their flocks , and of the day and hour when the ewe yeaned , or the lamb was lost . An Italian author , after the publication of M. Grafigny's novel , wrote a large quarto volume concerning ...
... Peru , who keep account by it of the number of their flocks , and of the day and hour when the ewe yeaned , or the lamb was lost . An Italian author , after the publication of M. Grafigny's novel , wrote a large quarto volume concerning ...
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... Peru , who had succeeded the unfortunate Atahualpa . Two roads lead from Peru to Chili ; one is by the sea - coast , and is destitute of water and pro- vision ; the other , for a distance of 120 miles , passes over the immense mountains ...
... Peru , who had succeeded the unfortunate Atahualpa . Two roads lead from Peru to Chili ; one is by the sea - coast , and is destitute of water and pro- vision ; the other , for a distance of 120 miles , passes over the immense mountains ...
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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...