The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... Province , by P. F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros . -Madrid , 1791 , 285 297 307 331 / 367 . APPENDIX . No. II . - Account of the Native Tribes who inhabit the Southern Extremity of South America , ex- tracted chiefly from Falkner's ...
... Province , by P. F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros . -Madrid , 1791 , 285 297 307 331 / 367 . APPENDIX . No. II . - Account of the Native Tribes who inhabit the Southern Extremity of South America , ex- tracted chiefly from Falkner's ...
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... province of Baroa are of a clear white and red , without any intermixture of the copper colour . As they differ in no other respect from the other Chilians ... provinces of Spain , + where the ruddy complexion is rare , their pos- terity 4.
... province of Baroa are of a clear white and red , without any intermixture of the copper colour . As they differ in no other respect from the other Chilians ... provinces of Spain , + where the ruddy complexion is rare , their pos- terity 4.
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... provinces . Of course , the subjected Chilians as well as the free , preserved until the arrival of the Spaniards , their original manners , which were by no means so rude as many are led to imagine . CHAP . III State of Chili before ...
... provinces . Of course , the subjected Chilians as well as the free , preserved until the arrival of the Spaniards , their original manners , which were by no means so rude as many are led to imagine . CHAP . III State of Chili before ...
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... province of Saint Jago , and Lora , in that of Maúle . But as no civil establishment can exist without some form of government , they had in each vil- lage or hamlet a chief called Ulmen , who in cer- tain points was subject to the ...
... province of Saint Jago , and Lora , in that of Maúle . But as no civil establishment can exist without some form of government , they had in each vil- lage or hamlet a chief called Ulmen , who in cer- tain points was subject to the ...
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... provinces , at which period they had attained that middle point between the savage and civilized state , known by the name of barbarism . Notwith- standing these unfavourable circumstances , the variety of their occupations , which ...
... provinces , at which period they had attained that middle point between the savage and civilized state , known by the name of barbarism . Notwith- standing these unfavourable circumstances , the variety of their occupations , which ...
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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...