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... ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru the second volume of the same author , in which he has brought the subject down to a late period . 167533 In this hope I was disappointed . This vo- lume a 3.
... ; and I was in constant ex- pectation of receiving from Peru the second volume of the same author , in which he has brought the subject down to a late period . 167533 In this hope I was disappointed . This vo- lume a 3.
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... received , and have been in conse- quence compelled to seek from various other sources the information which it would have given me . The wars of the natives with the Spaniards being , however , the only proper sub- ject of Chilian ...
... received , and have been in conse- quence compelled to seek from various other sources the information which it would have given me . The wars of the natives with the Spaniards being , however , the only proper sub- ject of Chilian ...
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... two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this 15.
... two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they received cattle from Europe . However this 15.
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... received opinion that grain was eaten raw by the first men who employed it as an article of food . But this aliment being of an insipid taste , and difficult of mastication , they began to parch or roast it ; the grain thus cooked ...
... received opinion that grain was eaten raw by the first men who employed it as an article of food . But this aliment being of an insipid taste , and difficult of mastication , they began to parch or roast it ; the grain thus cooked ...
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... is the first in Chili , where through respect for the Peruvians they were well received and entertained by the inhabitants . The Inca Paullu , who was well acquainted with the object of the expedition , thought that nothing 29.
... is the first in Chili , where through respect for the Peruvians they were well received and entertained by the inhabitants . The Inca Paullu , who was well acquainted with the object of the expedition , thought that nothing 29.
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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...