The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 385 pages |
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... sent them timely suc- cours and provisions , which were found in abundance in Copiapo . Those of the most robust constitutions , who were able to resist the inclemency of the season , by this unexpected aid were enabled to extricate ...
... sent them timely suc- cours and provisions , which were found in abundance in Copiapo . Those of the most robust constitutions , who were able to resist the inclemency of the season , by this unexpected aid were enabled to extricate ...
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... sent thither a detachment of troops , with orders to super- intend the digging of this precious metal . The mine that was opened was so rich that its product surpassed their most sanguine hopes . Their present and past sufferings were ...
... sent thither a detachment of troops , with orders to super- intend the digging of this precious metal . The mine that was opened was so rich that its product surpassed their most sanguine hopes . Their present and past sufferings were ...
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... sent him back to Peru for new recruits , as , since the affair of Copiapo , the natives became daily more bold and enterprising . Among others , the Quillotanes had , a little time before , massacred all the soldiers employed in the ...
... sent him back to Peru for new recruits , as , since the affair of Copiapo , the natives became daily more bold and enterprising . Among others , the Quillotanes had , a little time before , massacred all the soldiers employed in the ...
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... abundance of military stores , sent him back to Chili , with two ships filled with those seditious adventurers , of whom he was glad of an oppor- tunity to be disembarrassed . VOL . II . E In the meantime , Pedro de Hoz , who , 49.
... abundance of military stores , sent him back to Chili , with two ships filled with those seditious adventurers , of whom he was glad of an oppor- tunity to be disembarrassed . VOL . II . E In the meantime , Pedro de Hoz , who , 49.
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... sent from Spain to Chili , and cannot possibly be dispensed with , as in that case the Araucanians , imagining themselves despised , would , without any other cause , commence war . For this reason , there is always a considerable sum ...
... sent from Spain to Chili , and cannot possibly be dispensed with , as in that case the Araucanians , imagining themselves despised , would , without any other cause , commence war . For this reason , there is always a considerable sum ...
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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...