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... important an acquisition not to attract the ambitious views of those conquerors . This country , which extends for 1260 miles upon the Pacific Ocean , enjoys a delightful and salutary climate . The vast chain of the Cordilleras bor ...
... important an acquisition not to attract the ambitious views of those conquerors . This country , which extends for 1260 miles upon the Pacific Ocean , enjoys a delightful and salutary climate . The vast chain of the Cordilleras bor ...
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... important states or periods . From a hunter he becomes a shepherd , next a husbandman , and at legth a merchant , the period which forms the ghest degree of social civilization . The Chilians , when they were first known to the ...
... important states or periods . From a hunter he becomes a shepherd , next a husbandman , and at legth a merchant , the period which forms the ghest degree of social civilization . The Chilians , when they were first known to the ...
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... important and even necessary to form a correct opinion of the degree of their progress in society . With means of subsistence , sufficient to have procured them still greater conveniences of living , it would seem that the Chilians ...
... important and even necessary to form a correct opinion of the degree of their progress in society . With means of subsistence , sufficient to have procured them still greater conveniences of living , it would seem that the Chilians ...
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... important , and at the same time so doubtful . The first Europeans who visited these countries , attracted by other objects of far less interest , thought little or nothing of those that merit the attention of every observing mind , on ...
... important , and at the same time so doubtful . The first Europeans who visited these countries , attracted by other objects of far less interest , thought little or nothing of those that merit the attention of every observing mind , on ...
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... important conquest , made at their mutual expense , persuaded his companion to undertake the reduction of Chili , celebrated for its riches throughout all those countries . Almagro , filled with sanguine expectations of booty , began ...
... important conquest , made at their mutual expense , persuaded his companion to undertake the reduction of Chili , celebrated for its riches throughout all those countries . Almagro , filled with sanguine expectations of booty , began ...
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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...