Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, & Maturin: With the Author's Travels Across the Plains of the Llaneros, to Angustura, and Subsequent Descent of the Orinoco, in the Years 1819 & 1820Printed and sold for the author, by J. Jones, 1824 - 160 páginas |
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Página 23
... Spaniards had thrown together to pro- tect the town , when they had possession of the island . The houses , as we got into the town , were poor and irregular , but improved considerably upon approaching the Grand Square , the buildings ...
... Spaniards had thrown together to pro- tect the town , when they had possession of the island . The houses , as we got into the town , were poor and irregular , but improved considerably upon approaching the Grand Square , the buildings ...
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... Spaniards who constructed the fort , erected a platform on its summit , eight feet high , having an apparatus encircling it , one hundred feet in circumference , around which a pivot gun , a 24 Pounder , traver- ses , and can , of ...
... Spaniards who constructed the fort , erected a platform on its summit , eight feet high , having an apparatus encircling it , one hundred feet in circumference , around which a pivot gun , a 24 Pounder , traver- ses , and can , of ...
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... Spaniard , who , in- dignant at the supposed insult , terminated a tor- rent of uncalled - for abuse , by A BLOW , which laid ARISMENDI prostrate at his feet , in a state of insensibility . From that moment revenge was his darling theme ...
... Spaniard , who , in- dignant at the supposed insult , terminated a tor- rent of uncalled - for abuse , by A BLOW , which laid ARISMENDI prostrate at his feet , in a state of insensibility . From that moment revenge was his darling theme ...
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... Spaniards , the daring usurpation of their King , and the san- guinary haughty soul of the cruel MORILLO , whose guards he dared to come in his pursuit . MORILLO could not long remain in ignorance of the insulting challenge , though ...
... Spaniards , the daring usurpation of their King , and the san- guinary haughty soul of the cruel MORILLO , whose guards he dared to come in his pursuit . MORILLO could not long remain in ignorance of the insulting challenge , though ...
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... was hailed as the deliverer of his country . The Spaniards were panic - struck , and MORILLO himself , seeing his troops depart in the morning to scour the country , ́29 25 in search of the insurgents , and seeing 28.
... was hailed as the deliverer of his country . The Spaniards were panic - struck , and MORILLO himself , seeing his troops depart in the morning to scour the country , ́29 25 in search of the insurgents , and seeing 28.
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Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, and Maturin: With the Author's ... William Jackson Adam Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, and Maturin: With the Author's ... William Jackson Adam Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Journal of Voyages to Marguaritta, Trinidad, & Maturin: With the Author's ... W. J. Adam Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
Términos y frases comunes
adieu Admiral BRION Angustura animal appearance ARISMENDI arms army arrival attempt banks boat BOLIVAR British British Legion calabash canoe Captain PHELAN carabine cassava bread cause Colonel LOPEZ Colonel MEADE comfortable command companion considerable countenance crew Cumana DEVEREUX distance dress Dublin enemy English entered European exer exertions eyes fate fatigue ferocious former forward gentleman Governor hammock hand hastened heard hopes horses independence Indian inhabitants Ireland Irish Legion island JAMIESON journey Juan Griego kind ladies land Llaneros Major DAVY MARINO Maturin ment merchants miles MORILLO morning Musquitoes native troops night o'clock officers Orinoco ourselves passage passed passport Patriot perceived plain plantation present privations proceeded quarters racter rain renegado returned river sailed scene schooner seated seemed situation soldiers soon South American Spaniards Spanish suffered Supreme Chief surprize termination tion trees Trinidad Venezuela vessel village waited woods wretched
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Página 65 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers . . in perils by the heathen . . in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea . . in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Página 86 - ... blanket, with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head...
Página 137 - MEADE ; and that he looked with hope for the arrival of the rest of the Irish Legion.
Página 22 - As we proceeded we saw several flocks of a small species of Parrot...
Página 22 - Tropg«£/, a bird much sought for, about the size of our common thrush; it has a bright yellow top, with 'breast of the same...