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... Bio - bio , CHAP . II . - Paillataru elected Toqui ; Government of Roderigo de Quiroga ; Conquest of the Archipelago of Chiloé ; Description of the Inhabitants , CHAP . III . - Establishment of the Court of Royal Au- dience ; Government ...
... Bio - bio , CHAP . II . - Paillataru elected Toqui ; Government of Roderigo de Quiroga ; Conquest of the Archipelago of Chiloé ; Description of the Inhabitants , CHAP . III . - Establishment of the Court of Royal Au- dience ; Government ...
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... Bio - bio , where they founded New Con- ception . The harbour is situated in the middle of the bay called Talgacuano , a little more than two leagues west of Mocha ; a fort is all the building that is now left at Penco . miles , and ...
... Bio - bio , where they founded New Con- ception . The harbour is situated in the middle of the bay called Talgacuano , a little more than two leagues west of Mocha ; a fort is all the building that is now left at Penco . miles , and ...
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... Bio - bio and Valdivia , and between the Andes and the sea , extending from 36. 44. to 39. 50. degrees of south latitude . They derive their appellation of Araucanians from the province of Arauco , which , though the smallest in their ...
... Bio - bio and Valdivia , and between the Andes and the sea , extending from 36. 44. to 39. 50. degrees of south latitude . They derive their appellation of Araucanians from the province of Arauco , which , though the smallest in their ...
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... Bio- bio and Duqueco , on the confines of both terri- tories , whither the Spanish President and the Araucanian Toqui repair with the attendants agreed upon in the preliminary articles . The four Uthalmapus send at the same time four de ...
... Bio- bio and Duqueco , on the confines of both terri- tories , whither the Spanish President and the Araucanian Toqui repair with the attendants agreed upon in the preliminary articles . The four Uthalmapus send at the same time four de ...
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... 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.
... 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...