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... observe that , without being influenced by national distinctions or prejudices , the chief merit to which I aspire in this narration is that of impartiality . I have related nothing but what I have either found in those writers upon ...
... observe that , without being influenced by national distinctions or prejudices , the chief merit to which I aspire in this narration is that of impartiality . I have related nothing but what I have either found in those writers upon ...
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... observed , had been deprived of that share in the conquest that had been granted him by the court , and who had imprudently placed himself in the power of his rival , was accused of wishing to usurp the government . Whether this ...
... observed , had been deprived of that share in the conquest that had been granted him by the court , and who had imprudently placed himself in the power of his rival , was accused of wishing to usurp the government . Whether this ...
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... observed , are fair and ruddy , is of a reddish brown , but clearer than that of the other Ame- ricans . They have round faces , small animated eyes full of expression , a nose rather flat , a hand- * According to Falkner the missionary ...
... observed , are fair and ruddy , is of a reddish brown , but clearer than that of the other Ame- ricans . They have round faces , small animated eyes full of expression , a nose rather flat , a hand- * According to Falkner the missionary ...
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... observed among civilized nations . The criminal who is convicted of a capital offence , is imme- diately put to death , according to the military custom , without first being suffered to rot in prison , a mode of confinement unknown to ...
... observed among civilized nations . The criminal who is convicted of a capital offence , is imme- diately put to death , according to the military custom , without first being suffered to rot in prison , a mode of confinement unknown to ...
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... observed , amount to the fourth part of the population of the state . Nor have the Araucanians ever had cause to repent of this selection . During the last war , one of these mountaineers , Leviantu , lieutenant - general of Curignancu ...
... observed , amount to the fourth part of the population of the state . Nor have the Araucanians ever had cause to repent of this selection . During the last war , one of these mountaineers , Leviantu , lieutenant - general of Curignancu ...
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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...