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 55
... extremely grateful . It is most likely that these solitary savages had made their escape from slavery in some of the neighbouring West India islands , and now lived a life of idleness , surround- ed by abundance . 8th - Coasting , as on ...
... extremely grateful . It is most likely that these solitary savages had made their escape from slavery in some of the neighbouring West India islands , and now lived a life of idleness , surround- ed by abundance . 8th - Coasting , as on ...
Página 86
... extremely pleasant , and the country beautiful ; its plain surface was oc- casionally interspersed with wood , though not suf- ficiently thick , to offer any considerable obstacle to our passage . As the evening drew near , we 86.
... extremely pleasant , and the country beautiful ; its plain surface was oc- casionally interspersed with wood , though not suf- ficiently thick , to offer any considerable obstacle to our passage . As the evening drew near , we 86.
Página 87
... extremely polite and affable , and wives , as I understood , of a co- lonel then serving under General MARINO . As we had no time for dalliance , we hastened forward . Our path lay through a most beautiful and lux- uriant plantation ...
... extremely polite and affable , and wives , as I understood , of a co- lonel then serving under General MARINO . As we had no time for dalliance , we hastened forward . Our path lay through a most beautiful and lux- uriant plantation ...
Página 88
... extremely strong and muscular in their appearance , and from earliest infancy trained up in the performance of the most athletic exer- cises . In the management of the horse they are peculiarly dexterous , vying with , in skill and ac ...
... extremely strong and muscular in their appearance , and from earliest infancy trained up in the performance of the most athletic exer- cises . In the management of the horse they are peculiarly dexterous , vying with , in skill and ac ...
Página 97
... extremely well proportioned . His colour is an olive brown , a broad good - natured face , with a great deal of affability when he smiles ; but the rolling of his dark eyes , his black hair , and long jet black mustachios , when a cloud ...
... extremely well proportioned . His colour is an olive brown , a broad good - natured face , with a great deal of affability when he smiles ; but the rolling of his dark eyes , his black hair , and long jet black mustachios , when a cloud ...
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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...