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... ARCHIPELAGO OF CHILOE , FROM THE DESCRIPCION HISTORIAL OF P. F. PEDRO GONZALEZ DE AGUEROS ; THE SECOND , AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVE TRIBES WHO INHABIT THE SOUTHERN EXTREMITY OF SOUTH AMERICA , EXTRACTED CHIEFLY FROM FALKNER'S DESCRIPTION ...
... ARCHIPELAGO OF CHILOE , FROM THE DESCRIPCION HISTORIAL OF P. F. PEDRO GONZALEZ DE AGUEROS ; THE SECOND , AN ACCOUNT OF THE NATIVE TRIBES WHO INHABIT THE SOUTHERN EXTREMITY OF SOUTH AMERICA , EXTRACTED CHIEFLY FROM FALKNER'S DESCRIPTION ...
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... Archipelago of Chiloé ; Description of the Inhabitants , CHAP . III . - Establishment of the Court of Royal Au- dience ; Government of Don Melchor Bravo de Sara- via ; Military Operations of Paillataru and his Suc- cessor Paynenancu ...
... Archipelago of Chiloé ; Description of the Inhabitants , CHAP . III . - Establishment of the Court of Royal Au- dience ; Government of Don Melchor Bravo de Sara- via ; Military Operations of Paillataru and his Suc- cessor Paynenancu ...
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... Archipelago of Chiloé , extracted chiefly from the Descripcion Historial of that Province , by P. F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros . -Madrid , 1791 , 285 297 307 331 / 367 . APPENDIX . No. II . - Account of the Native Tribes who inhabit the ...
... Archipelago of Chiloé , extracted chiefly from the Descripcion Historial of that Province , by P. F. Pedro Gonzalez de Agueros . -Madrid , 1791 , 285 297 307 331 / 367 . APPENDIX . No. II . - Account of the Native Tribes who inhabit the ...
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... Archipelago of Chiloé . Pi- zarro , jealous of these men , under frivolous pretexts refused to confirm the royal nomination , and appointed to this expedition his quarter- master , Pedro de Valdivia , a prudent and active # officer ...
... Archipelago of Chiloé . Pi- zarro , jealous of these men , under frivolous pretexts refused to confirm the royal nomination , and appointed to this expedition his quarter- master , Pedro de Valdivia , a prudent and active # officer ...
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... , at present called Val- divia , and the Archipelago of Chiloé . They are the allies of the Araucanians , and mortal enemies to the Spaniards , and are divided into several tribes , which , like those in the other parts 136.
... , at present called Val- divia , and the Archipelago of Chiloé . They are the allies of the Araucanians , and mortal enemies to the Spaniards , and are divided into several tribes , which , like those in the other parts 136.
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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...