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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. banes , Quillotanes , and Mapochinians . After this , having passed the river Rapel , he proceeded to attack the Promaucians , who could not be in- duced by the persuasions of the ambassadors to submit themselves ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. banes , Quillotanes , and Mapochinians . After this , having passed the river Rapel , he proceeded to attack the Promaucians , who could not be in- duced by the persuasions of the ambassadors to submit themselves ...
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... passed the fatal Cacha- poal , and , regardless of the remonstrances of the Peruvians , advanced into the country of the Promaucians . At the first sight of the Spaniards , their horses , and the thundering arms of Europe , these ...
... passed the fatal Cacha- poal , and , regardless of the remonstrances of the Peruvians , advanced into the country of the Promaucians . At the first sight of the Spaniards , their horses , and the thundering arms of Europe , these ...
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... passed the Maúle , proceeded in his career of victory to the river Itata . While encamped there in a place called Quilacura , he was at- tacked at night by a body of the natives , who destroyed many of his horses , and put him in ...
... passed the Maúle , proceeded in his career of victory to the river Itata . While encamped there in a place called Quilacura , he was at- tacked at night by a body of the natives , who destroyed many of his horses , and put him in ...
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... passing a very narrow strait to another malicious old woman who guards it , and who , on failure , deprives the passenger of an eye . This fable resembles much that of the ferryman Charon , not that there is any probability that the 91.
... passing a very narrow strait to another malicious old woman who guards it , and who , on failure , deprives the passenger of an eye . This fable resembles much that of the ferryman Charon , not that there is any probability that the 91.
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... year 1550 , that general passed the great river Bio - bio , which separates the Araucanian territory from that of tl the Pencones , and boldly offered battle to these h VOL . II . K V new enemies , who had advanced to meet him to.
... year 1550 , that general passed the great river Bio - bio , which separates the Araucanian territory from that of tl the Pencones , and boldly offered battle to these h VOL . II . K V new enemies , who had advanced to meet him to.
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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...