The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... respecting their retreat , some being desirous of returning to Peru , while others wished to form a settlement in the northern provinces , where they had been received with such hospitality . The first opinion was supported by Almagro ...
... respecting their retreat , some being desirous of returning to Peru , while others wished to form a settlement in the northern provinces , where they had been received with such hospitality . The first opinion was supported by Almagro ...
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... their enemies . Their superstitious credulity is particularly obvious , in the serious stories that they relate of apparitions , phantoms , and hobgoblins , respecting which they have innu- merable tales . But in truth , is there any 88.
... their enemies . Their superstitious credulity is particularly obvious , in the serious stories that they relate of apparitions , phantoms , and hobgoblins , respecting which they have innu- merable tales . But in truth , is there any 88.
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... respecting the origin of creation . are so crude and ridiculous , that to relate them could serve for little else than to show the weak- ness of human reason when left to itself . They have among them a tradition of a great deluge , in ...
... respecting the origin of creation . are so crude and ridiculous , that to relate them could serve for little else than to show the weak- ness of human reason when left to itself . They have among them a tradition of a great deluge , in ...
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... respecting these bodies the same opinion as the Romans , that at their setting they submerge themselves in the sea . Nor are there wanting Fontenelles among them , who believe that many of those globes are so many other earths ...
... respecting these bodies the same opinion as the Romans , that at their setting they submerge themselves in the sea . Nor are there wanting Fontenelles among them , who believe that many of those globes are so many other earths ...
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... respecting the Patagonians , who are real Chilians . * They , however , make but little use of it , none of them ever attempting to speak in Spanish in any of * Hawkesworth's Voyage of Captain Wallis . the assemblies or congresses that ...
... respecting the Patagonians , who are real Chilians . * They , however , make but little use of it , none of them ever attempting to speak in Spanish in any of * Hawkesworth's Voyage of Captain Wallis . the assemblies or congresses that ...
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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...