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 38
... give to his countenance that degree of ferocity , for which his various sanguinary acts have rendered him so notorious . To many of those acts he was instigated by the revolting scenes of barbarity practised upon his sailors and ...
... give to his countenance that degree of ferocity , for which his various sanguinary acts have rendered him so notorious . To many of those acts he was instigated by the revolting scenes of barbarity practised upon his sailors and ...
Página 39
... give obedi- ence to the orders of the renegado , was arrested , robbed of every article of value he possessed , & sent , guarded , on board the Orinoco Flag ship , from which he was afterwards permitted to enter the Charlotte Gambier ...
... give obedi- ence to the orders of the renegado , was arrested , robbed of every article of value he possessed , & sent , guarded , on board the Orinoco Flag ship , from which he was afterwards permitted to enter the Charlotte Gambier ...
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... give battle ; whilst our attention was thus direct- ed , a man at the mast - head descried land , but to what island or mainland it belonged , the Captain was uncertain . As we neared it , what was our as- tonishment to discover in the ...
... give battle ; whilst our attention was thus direct- ed , a man at the mast - head descried land , but to what island or mainland it belonged , the Captain was uncertain . As we neared it , what was our as- tonishment to discover in the ...
Página 47
... give the ship a healthy appear- ance , and dress up the diseased ; thereby to elude the vigilance of the inspectors . At 3 o'clock P.M. they came on board and minutely examined the passengers , crew , and ship . A certificate of health ...
... give the ship a healthy appear- ance , and dress up the diseased ; thereby to elude the vigilance of the inspectors . At 3 o'clock P.M. they came on board and minutely examined the passengers , crew , and ship . A certificate of health ...
Página 94
... give it a trial . On our way we met a stout athletic Indian , whom our guide persuaded to return , and aided by a glass or two of rum , he succeeded in carrying over the whole of our luggage ; though the current was so rapid that it was ...
... give it a trial . On our way we met a stout athletic Indian , whom our guide persuaded to return , and aided by a glass or two of rum , he succeeded in carrying over the whole of our luggage ; though the current was so rapid that it was ...
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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...