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... complete it . The first volume of the Abbé Olivares ' manuscript I had then in my possession ; this , with what works had appeared in print , supplied me with sufficient documents until the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex ...
... complete it . The first volume of the Abbé Olivares ' manuscript I had then in my possession ; this , with what works had appeared in print , supplied me with sufficient documents until the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex ...
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... . The in- fluence of climate may undoubtedly affect lan- guage so far as to modify it , but can never produce a complete change in its primitive struc- ture . The Chilians call their first progenitors Pegni Epatun , which 2.
... . The in- fluence of climate may undoubtedly affect lan- guage so far as to modify it , but can never produce a complete change in its primitive struc- ture . The Chilians call their first progenitors Pegni Epatun , which 2.
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... complete dictionary thereof would require more than one large volume ; for , besides the radical words , which are very numerous , so great is the use of compounds , that , it may almost be said , in this consists the very genius of the ...
... complete dictionary thereof would require more than one large volume ; for , besides the radical words , which are very numerous , so great is the use of compounds , that , it may almost be said , in this consists the very genius of the ...
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... complete knowledge of the sea - coast , he ordered Pastene to explore it , and note the situation of the most important parts and places , as far as the straits of Magellan . On his return from this expe- dition , he sent him back to ...
... complete knowledge of the sea - coast , he ordered Pastene to explore it , and note the situation of the most important parts and places , as far as the straits of Magellan . On his return from this expe- dition , he sent him back to ...
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... complete the tropical year they add five inter- calary days , but in what manner they are intro- duced I am not able to determine ; it is , how- ever , probable they are placed in the last month , which in that case will have thirty ...
... complete the tropical year they add five inter- calary days , but in what manner they are intro- duced I am not able to determine ; it is , how- ever , probable they are placed in the last month , which in that case will have thirty ...
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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...