The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... persons of unquestionable veracity , and have thought proper to confine myself to a plain narrative of facts , and omit all reflections that might occur , in order not to appear to be too much influenced in favour of either of the ...
... persons of unquestionable veracity , and have thought proper to confine myself to a plain narrative of facts , and omit all reflections that might occur , in order not to appear to be too much influenced in favour of either of the ...
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... persons who speak it , and these among a rude people are , and , necessarily must be , very limited . So copious is the Chilian language , that , in the opinion of those well acquainted with it , a complete dictionary thereof would ...
... persons who speak it , and these among a rude people are , and , necessarily must be , very limited . So copious is the Chilian language , that , in the opinion of those well acquainted with it , a complete dictionary thereof would ...
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... person , hoping , by means of his activity and address , to recruit a body of troops sufficient for the subjugation of the southern provinces , which had shown themselves the most warlike . As he was on the eve of his departure , in the ...
... person , hoping , by means of his activity and address , to recruit a body of troops sufficient for the subjugation of the southern provinces , which had shown themselves the most warlike . As he was on the eve of his departure , in the ...
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... person who is crooked or deformed , not from their pursuing , as some have supposed , the cruel custom of the ancient Spartans , in suffocating such unfortunate children , but because they leave to nature the care of forming them ...
... person who is crooked or deformed , not from their pursuing , as some have supposed , the cruel custom of the ancient Spartans , in suffocating such unfortunate children , but because they leave to nature the care of forming them ...
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... persons of inferior condition , of a greenish blue , but those of the higher classes wear it of different colours , either white , red , or blue , with stripes a span broad , on which are wrought , with much skill , figures of flowers ...
... persons of inferior condition , of a greenish blue , but those of the higher classes wear it of different colours , either white , red , or blue , with stripes a span broad , on which are wrought , with much skill , figures of flowers ...
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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...