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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... dangers of which they had not sufficient courage to withstand . I am not , nor do I wish to be , the advocate of any man or set of men , by whom they may have conceived themselves to be hoodwinked or cozened ; nor do I , in the ...
... dangers of which they had not sufficient courage to withstand . I am not , nor do I wish to be , the advocate of any man or set of men , by whom they may have conceived themselves to be hoodwinked or cozened ; nor do I , in the ...
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... dangers ; these he armed at the expence of MORILLO , to whose house he still had access , and started at midnight to commence the apparently visionary scheme of his country's re- demption . In the right hand he carried a mus → ket ...
... dangers ; these he armed at the expence of MORILLO , to whose house he still had access , and started at midnight to commence the apparently visionary scheme of his country's re- demption . In the right hand he carried a mus → ket ...
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... dangerous state of illness , to which I was apparently hastening . As I lay in this situation , without medical aid , or any assistance whatever , unless what I might re- ceive from the solicitude of friends , not much bet- ter situated ...
... dangerous state of illness , to which I was apparently hastening . As I lay in this situation , without medical aid , or any assistance whatever , unless what I might re- ceive from the solicitude of friends , not much bet- ter situated ...
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... danger ; our vessel lingering on a coast where her crew dared not land , having quit- ted their privateers without the necessary pass- ports ; & ourprovisions and water rapidly decreas- ing , without any immediate appearance of reach ...
... danger ; our vessel lingering on a coast where her crew dared not land , having quit- ted their privateers without the necessary pass- ports ; & ourprovisions and water rapidly decreas- ing , without any immediate appearance of reach ...
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... dangers of the forest , nor season of the year , from pursuing our destined route .. 16th - Before sun - rise this morning , we were busily employed in preparations for our dreary march . Our knapsacks were packed and se- curely ...
... dangers of the forest , nor season of the year , from pursuing our destined route .. 16th - Before sun - rise this morning , we were busily employed in preparations for our dreary march . Our knapsacks were packed and se- curely ...
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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...