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 14
... received a number of our fellow adventurers , of the 1st division , who had hastened on board to greet our arrival , was soon changed to mourning , at the recital of those scenes of want , sickness and indescribable misery , under which ...
... received a number of our fellow adventurers , of the 1st division , who had hastened on board to greet our arrival , was soon changed to mourning , at the recital of those scenes of want , sickness and indescribable misery , under which ...
Página 15
... received the promise of pay , and that their only rations were , a pint of Oatmeal , and one half pint of new Rum per diem : upon which , with a scanty supply of miserably bad Water , they were obliged to undergo six hours severe ...
... received the promise of pay , and that their only rations were , a pint of Oatmeal , and one half pint of new Rum per diem : upon which , with a scanty supply of miserably bad Water , they were obliged to undergo six hours severe ...
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... received from a Surgeon , an Irishman , who attended him during the effects of a severe wound he had received , upon a former attempt of MORILLO to make good a landing upon the island . Having dined sumptuously upon Fish fried in oil ...
... received from a Surgeon , an Irishman , who attended him during the effects of a severe wound he had received , upon a former attempt of MORILLO to make good a landing upon the island . Having dined sumptuously upon Fish fried in oil ...
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... receiving no answer , I turned round , and perceived he was fast asleep . Having awoke him , we listened attentively , and soon found that I had not been deceived . As we had each a rifle - whistle , we sounded , and hallooed , but to ...
... receiving no answer , I turned round , and perceived he was fast asleep . Having awoke him , we listened attentively , and soon found that I had not been deceived . As we had each a rifle - whistle , we sounded , and hallooed , but to ...
Página 71
... received an invitation from Colonel BLOSSET , com- mander of the Legion , to spend the day at an Orange grove , about a mile distant from Maturin ; the principal ladies of which were invited . After decorating our persons with the ...
... received an invitation from Colonel BLOSSET , com- mander of the Legion , to spend the day at an Orange grove , about a mile distant from Maturin ; the principal ladies of which were invited . After decorating our persons with the ...
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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...