The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... Spaniards to Chili , · 18 CHAP . VI . - The Spaniards return to Chili , under the Command of Pedro de Valdivia ; St. Jago the Capital founded ; Various Encounters with the Natives ; Con- spiracy of the Soldiers against the General ...
... Spaniards to Chili , · 18 CHAP . VI . - The Spaniards return to Chili , under the Command of Pedro de Valdivia ; St. Jago the Capital founded ; Various Encounters with the Natives ; Con- spiracy of the Soldiers against the General ...
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... Spaniards they were entirely unacquainted with the art of writing , and their traditionary accounts are so crude and imperfect , that they afford not the least degree of rational information to the inquisitive mind . Many of the ...
... Spaniards they were entirely unacquainted with the art of writing , and their traditionary accounts are so crude and imperfect , that they afford not the least degree of rational information to the inquisitive mind . Many of the ...
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... Spaniards , had attained the third state ; they were no longer hunters but agriculturists . Reasoning from ge- neral principles , Dr. Robertson has therefore been led into an error in placing them in the class of hunters , an occupation ...
... Spaniards , had attained the third state ; they were no longer hunters but agriculturists . Reasoning from ge- neral principles , Dr. Robertson has therefore been led into an error in placing them in the class of hunters , an occupation ...
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... Spaniards , is uncertain ; from its extreme simplicity I should , however , be strongly induced to doubt the latter . Ad- miral Spilsberg observes , that the inhabitants of Mocha , an island in the Araucanian Sea , where the Spaniards ...
... Spaniards , is uncertain ; from its extreme simplicity I should , however , be strongly induced to doubt the latter . Ad- miral Spilsberg observes , that the inhabitants of Mocha , an island in the Araucanian Sea , where the Spaniards ...
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... Spaniards and 15,000 Peruvians , under the command of Paullu , the brother of the Inca Manco , the nominal Emperor of Peru , who had succeeded the unfortunate Atahualpa . Two roads lead from Peru to Chili ; one is by the sea - coast ...
... Spaniards and 15,000 Peruvians , under the command of Paullu , the brother of the Inca Manco , the nominal Emperor of Peru , who had succeeded the unfortunate Atahualpa . Two roads lead from Peru to Chili ; one is by the sea - coast ...
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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...