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... called Ulmenes . These tribes , beginning at the north and proceeding to the south , were called Copiapins , Coquimbanes , Quillotanes , Mapochi- nians , Promaucians , Curés , Cauques , Pencones , Araucanians , Cunches , Chilotes ...
... called Ulmenes . These tribes , beginning at the north and proceeding to the south , were called Copiapins , Coquimbanes , Quillotanes , Mapochi- nians , Promaucians , Curés , Cauques , Pencones , Araucanians , Cunches , Chilotes ...
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... called by them vunalti , though from the great fertility of the soil but little attention was paid to them . Being in want of animals of strength to till the ground , they were accustomed to turn it up with a spade made of hard wood ...
... called by them vunalti , though from the great fertility of the soil but little attention was paid to them . Being in want of animals of strength to till the ground , they were accustomed to turn it up with a spade made of hard wood ...
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... called by them couque , which they baked in holes formed like ovens , excavated in the sides of the mountains and in the banks of the rivers , a great number of which are still to be seen . Their invention of a kind of sieve , called ...
... called by them couque , which they baked in holes formed like ovens , excavated in the sides of the mountains and in the banks of the rivers , a great number of which are still to be seen . Their invention of a kind of sieve , called ...
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... called cara , a name which they at present give to the Spanish cities , or in small ones , which they denominated lov . But these accidental collections had not the form of the present European settlements ; they consisted only of a ...
... called cara , a name which they at present give to the Spanish cities , or in small ones , which they denominated lov . But these accidental collections had not the form of the present European settlements ; they consisted only of a ...
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... called Ulmen , who in cer- tain points was subject to the supreme ruler of the tribe , who was known by the same name . The succession of all these chiefs was established by hereditary right , a custom that proves the antiquity of these ...
... called Ulmen , who in cer- tain points was subject to the supreme ruler of the tribe , who was known by the same name . The succession of all these chiefs was established by hereditary right , a custom that proves the antiquity of these ...
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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...