The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... EXTREMITY OF SOUTH AMERICA , EXTRACTED CHIEFLY FROM FALKNER'S DESCRIPTION OF PATAGONIA . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME , PATERNOSTER - ROW . Printed by J. D. Dewick , 46 , Barbican . 1809 . THE.
... EXTREMITY OF SOUTH AMERICA , EXTRACTED CHIEFLY FROM FALKNER'S DESCRIPTION OF PATAGONIA . IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PRINTED FOR LONGMAN , HURST , REES , AND ORME , PATERNOSTER - ROW . Printed by J. D. Dewick , 46 , Barbican . 1809 . THE.
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... volume of the Abbé Olivares ' manuscript I had then in my possession ; this , with what works had appeared in print , supplied me with sufficient documents until the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru ...
... volume of the Abbé Olivares ' manuscript I had then in my possession ; this , with what works had appeared in print , supplied me with sufficient documents until the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru ...
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... volume ; for , besides the radical words , which are very numerous , so great is the use of compounds , that , it may almost be said , in this consists the very genius of the language . Each verb , either derivatively or conjunctively ...
... volume ; for , besides the radical words , which are very numerous , so great is the use of compounds , that , it may almost be said , in this consists the very genius of the language . Each verb , either derivatively or conjunctively ...
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... volume concerning the quipos . He describes every thing relating to quipography , says the Limas - Essarist , as confidently as if he had been Quipo - Camáyn to the Incas ; but the misfortune is , that all his conjectures are erroneous ...
... volume concerning the quipos . He describes every thing relating to quipography , says the Limas - Essarist , as confidently as if he had been Quipo - Camáyn to the Incas ; but the misfortune is , that all his conjectures are erroneous ...
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... volume of the Semanario Erudito . In this great effort of the natives of Chili to recover their country , Osorno resisted them vigorously , and held out for six months at the end of that time the Spaniards repulsed the lent efforts of ...
... volume of the Semanario Erudito . In this great effort of the natives of Chili to recover their country , Osorno resisted them vigorously , and held out for six months at the end of that time the Spaniards repulsed the lent efforts of ...
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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...