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... Settlements in Araucania , 249 CHAP . VII . - Second unfortunate Government of Garcia Ramon ; Restoration of the Court of Royal Audience ; Ineffectual Negotiation for Peace , 262 CHAP . VIII . Daring Enterprises of the Toquis Lientur ...
... Settlements in Araucania , 249 CHAP . VII . - Second unfortunate Government of Garcia Ramon ; Restoration of the Court of Royal Audience ; Ineffectual Negotiation for Peace , 262 CHAP . VIII . Daring Enterprises of the Toquis Lientur ...
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... settlement , make use of this plough , drawn by two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they ...
... settlement , make use of this plough , drawn by two chilihueques , to cultivate their lands ; and Fathers Bry , who refer to this fact , add , that the Chilians , with the assistance of these animals , tilled their grounds before they ...
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... settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within sight of each other , precisely in the manner of the German settlements in the time of 18 -Political Establishments; Government Arts, ·
... settlements ; they consisted only of a number of huts , irregularly dispersed within sight of each other , precisely in the manner of the German settlements in the time of 18 -Political Establishments; Government Arts, ·
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Giovanni Ignazio Molina. the manner of the German settlements in the time of Charlemagne . Some of these villages exist even at present in several parts of Spanish Chili , of which the most considerable are Lampa , in the province of ...
Giovanni Ignazio Molina. the manner of the German settlements in the time of Charlemagne . Some of these villages exist even at present in several parts of Spanish Chili , of which the most considerable are Lampa , in the province of ...
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... settlement in the northern provinces , where they had been received with such hospitality . The first opinion was supported by Almagro , whose mind began to be impressed by the sug- gestions contained in the letters of his friends . He ...
... settlement in the northern provinces , where they had been received with such hospitality . The first opinion was supported by Almagro , whose mind began to be impressed by the sug- gestions contained in the letters of his friends . He ...
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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...