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... nians , Promaucians , Curés , Cauques , Pencones , Araucanians , Cunches , Chilotes , Chiquilanians , Pehuenches , Puelches , and Huilliches . The Inca Yupanqui , who reigned in Peru about the year 1450 , being informed of the na- tural ...
... nians , Promaucians , Curés , Cauques , Pencones , Araucanians , Cunches , Chilotes , Chiquilanians , Pehuenches , Puelches , and Huilliches . The Inca Yupanqui , who reigned in Peru about the year 1450 , being informed of the na- tural ...
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... nians , tenacious , as are all nations not corrupted by luxury , of the customs of their country , have made no change in their mode of building . But , as they are almost all polygamists , the size of their houses is proportioned to ...
... nians , tenacious , as are all nations not corrupted by luxury , of the customs of their country , have made no change in their mode of building . But , as they are almost all polygamists , the size of their houses is proportioned to ...
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... nians , he had also resolved to ask of the court of Spain , in reward for his services , the two ad- jacent provinces of Arauco and Tucapel , with the title of Marquis . The building of the city having progressed rapidly under his ...
... nians , he had also resolved to ask of the court of Spain , in reward for his services , the two ad- jacent provinces of Arauco and Tucapel , with the title of Marquis . The building of the city having progressed rapidly under his ...
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... time undecided , was at length on the point of declaring for the Arauca- nians , when Don Garcia perceiving his men ready to give way , gave orders to a body of re- serve to attack the division of the enemy , com- N 2 179.
... time undecided , was at length on the point of declaring for the Arauca- nians , when Don Garcia perceiving his men ready to give way , gave orders to a body of re- serve to attack the division of the enemy , com- N 2 179.
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... nians ; Death of Caupolican ; Termination of the Government of Don Garcia . SOON were the predictions of the great Caupo- lican verified . Instigated by the most unbounded rage , the Araucanians immediately proceeded to elect a Toqui ...
... nians ; Death of Caupolican ; Termination of the Government of Don Garcia . SOON were the predictions of the great Caupo- lican verified . Instigated by the most unbounded rage , the Araucanians immediately proceeded to elect a Toqui ...
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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...