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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... returned , amid hardship and beggary , to their native soil ; without being able , duly to appreciate those exertions , or com- pass those rewards which were in store for the persevering . Many reports have , of course , been circulated ...
... returned , amid hardship and beggary , to their native soil ; without being able , duly to appreciate those exertions , or com- pass those rewards which were in store for the persevering . Many reports have , of course , been circulated ...
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... returned unrewarded - but of the causes which led to my return , they will appear in the course of my Journal . A plain and simple narrative of the events to which I was an eye and ear - witness , is all that I pretend to ; and whether ...
... returned unrewarded - but of the causes which led to my return , they will appear in the course of my Journal . A plain and simple narrative of the events to which I was an eye and ear - witness , is all that I pretend to ; and whether ...
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... returned , anxiously awaiting the result of an interview , in which those pros- pects , for which we had left our native land , were so nearly and dearly concerned . The landing of our Colonel upon the island was announced by a salute ...
... returned , anxiously awaiting the result of an interview , in which those pros- pects , for which we had left our native land , were so nearly and dearly concerned . The landing of our Colonel upon the island was announced by a salute ...
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... for ever , the troops returned to Juan Griego ; the sun was sinking into his wa- tery bed in unusual splendour , and the music " playing our national air of " Patrick's Day , 17 Colonel MEADE'S Rifle Brigade, arms reversed." ...
... for ever , the troops returned to Juan Griego ; the sun was sinking into his wa- tery bed in unusual splendour , and the music " playing our national air of " Patrick's Day , 17 Colonel MEADE'S Rifle Brigade, arms reversed." ...
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... returned to England , but armed with authority , by the Supreme Chief , to raise a Legion which he himself might lead to victory and final reward . Notwithstanding the disrepute which the ex - parte statements of such as had returned ...
... returned to England , but armed with authority , by the Supreme Chief , to raise a Legion which he himself might lead to victory and final reward . Notwithstanding the disrepute which the ex - parte statements of such as had returned ...
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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...