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... relations of the murdered . Hus- bands and fathers are not subject to any punish- ment for killing their wives or children , as they are declared , by their laws , to be the natural masters of their lives . Those accused of sor- cery ...
... relations of the murdered . Hus- bands and fathers are not subject to any punish- ment for killing their wives or children , as they are declared , by their laws , to be the natural masters of their lives . Those accused of sor- cery ...
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... relations , and of punishing them . From this abuse are derived the denominations and dis- tinctions , so much used in their jurisprudence , of genguerin , genguman , genla , & c . denoting the principal connections of the aggressor ...
... relations , and of punishing them . From this abuse are derived the denominations and dis- tinctions , so much used in their jurisprudence , of genguerin , genguman , genla , & c . denoting the principal connections of the aggressor ...
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... relations seat them- selves upon the ground around the body , and weep for a long time ; they afterwards expose it , clothed in the best dress of the deceased , upon a high bier , called pilluay , where it remains during the night ...
... relations seat them- selves upon the ground around the body , and weep for a long time ; they afterwards expose it , clothed in the best dress of the deceased , upon a high bier , called pilluay , where it remains during the night ...
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... relations have quitted the deceased , an old woman , called Tempuleague , comes , as the Araucanians believe , in the shape of a whale , to transport him to the Elysian fields ; but before his arrival there , he is obliged to pay a toll ...
... relations have quitted the deceased , an old woman , called Tempuleague , comes , as the Araucanians believe , in the shape of a whale , to transport him to the Elysian fields ; but before his arrival there , he is obliged to pay a toll ...
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... relation that he has , who is an able speaker , sub- stituted in his place . Their parents , therefore , accustom them from their childhood to speak in public , and carry them to their national assem- blies , where the best orators of ...
... relation that he has , who is an able speaker , sub- stituted in his place . Their parents , therefore , accustom them from their childhood to speak in public , and carry them to their national assem- blies , where the best orators of ...
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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...