The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... give a sufficiently accurate ac- count of them . Having stated these circum- stances , I shall merely observe that , without being influenced by national distinctions or prejudices , the chief merit to which I aspire in this narration ...
... give a sufficiently accurate ac- count of them . Having stated these circum- stances , I shall merely observe that , without being influenced by national distinctions or prejudices , the chief merit to which I aspire in this narration ...
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... give great precision and strength to conversation . But what is truly surprising in this language is that it contains no irregular verb or noun . Every thing in it may be said to be regulated with a geometrical precision , and displays ...
... give great precision and strength to conversation . But what is truly surprising in this language is that it contains no irregular verb or noun . Every thing in it may be said to be regulated with a geometrical precision , and displays ...
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... give it much sweetness and variety ; this is , however , injured by the frequent recurrence of the u , a defect from which the Latin is by no means exempt . In this respect the latter has , however , been fortu- nately corrected in its ...
... give it much sweetness and variety ; this is , however , injured by the frequent recurrence of the u , a defect from which the Latin is by no means exempt . In this respect the latter has , however , been fortu- nately corrected in its ...
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... give to the Spanish cities , or in small ones , which they denominated lov . But these accidental collections had not the form of the present European settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within ...
... give to the Spanish cities , or in small ones , which they denominated lov . But these accidental collections had not the form of the present European settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within ...
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... give rise to a suspicion that they not only were acquainted with this valuable metal , but that they also made use of it . But , considering the silence of the first writers upon America on this subject , notwithstanding the inferences ...
... give rise to a suspicion that they not only were acquainted with this valuable metal , but that they also made use of it . But , considering the silence of the first writers upon America on this subject , notwithstanding the inferences ...
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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...