The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... houses of a quadrangular form , and covered the roof with rushes , the walls were made of wood plais- tered with clay , and sometimes of brick , called by them tica ; the use of which they doubtless learned from the Peruvians , among ...
... houses of a quadrangular form , and covered the roof with rushes , the walls were made of wood plais- tered with clay , and sometimes of brick , called by them tica ; the use of which they doubtless learned from the Peruvians , among ...
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... houses , and assailed the citadel , wherein the in- habitants had taken refuge , upon all sides . While they defended themselves valiantly , a woman , named Inez Suarez , animated with a spirit more cruel than courageous , seized an axe ...
... houses , and assailed the citadel , wherein the in- habitants had taken refuge , upon all sides . While they defended themselves valiantly , a woman , named Inez Suarez , animated with a spirit more cruel than courageous , seized an axe ...
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... houses is proportioned to the number of women they can maintain . The interior of these houses is very simple , the luxury of convenience , splendour , and show , is altogether unknown in them , and necessity alone is consulted in the ...
... houses is proportioned to the number of women they can maintain . The interior of these houses is very simple , the luxury of convenience , splendour , and show , is altogether unknown in them , and necessity alone is consulted in the ...
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... houses , and distributes in- discriminately his merchandize to all those who present them- selves . When he has completed his sale , he gives notice of his departure , and all the purchasers hasten to deliver to him , in the first ...
... houses , and distributes in- discriminately his merchandize to all those who present them- selves . When he has completed his sale , he gives notice of his departure , and all the purchasers hasten to deliver to him , in the first ...
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... house of her husband , where her relations are assembled , and receive the presents agreed upon , after having partaken of the nuptial enter- tainment . Of course , the expenses of an Arau- canian wedding are by no means inconsiderable ...
... house of her husband , where her relations are assembled , and receive the presents agreed upon , after having partaken of the nuptial enter- tainment . Of course , the expenses of an Arau- canian wedding are by no means inconsiderable ...
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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...