Sixteen Years in Chile and Peru: From 1822 to 1839Fisher, son, and Company, 1841 - 563 pages |
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Aconcagua amongst Arequipa army arrived Atahualpa attack battalion Beauchef Bernardo O'Higgins Blanco boats Borgoño Callao capital Captain Caupolican Cauquenes cavalry chief Chile Chilian Chiloe Colonel Tupper command Commandante Concepcion conduct Coquimbo Cordilleras Cuesta decree dollars Don Jose Don Manuel earthquake El Araucano enemy escaped excellency favour foreigners Freyre gave governor hacienda halted honour horses Indians infantry informed inhabitants island Joaquin Prieto Juan Fernandez junta Lautaro leagues liberty Lieutenant-Colonel Lima Lord Cochrane Maipu manner Manuel Blanco Encalada Manuel Borgoño marched ment military minister night O'Higgins officers party passed patriots Peru Peruvian Pincheyra Pinto Pizarro port president Prieto prisoners province Quillota received republic retired river S'or San Martin Santa Cruz Señor sent ship soldiers soon Spaniards Spanish squadron supreme director Talca Talcahuano Thomas Sutcliffe took town TREATIES OF PAUCARPATA treaty troops Valdivia Valparaiso vessels visited whilst Yumbell
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Page 244 - They never fail who die In a great cause : the block may soak their gore ; Their heads may sodden in the sun ; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls — But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to freedom.
Page 257 - Twas his to mourn Misfortune's rudest shock, Scourged by the winds, and cradled on the rock, To wake each joyless...
Page 411 - Atahualpa to embrace the Christian faith; to acknowledge the supreme jurisdiction of the Pope, and to submit to the king of Castile as his lawful sovereign ; promising, if he...
Page 37 - On that day when Peru shall freely pronounce as to the form of her institutions, be they whatever they may, my functions shall cease, and I shall have the glory of announcing to the government of Chile, of which I am a subject, that their heroic efforts have at last received the consolation of having given liberty to Peru, and security to the neighbouring states.
Page 40 - This loss was a death-blow to the Spanish naval force in that quarter of the world; for, although there were still two Spanish frigates and some smaller vessels in the Pacific, they never afterwards ventured to show themselves, but left Lord Cochrane undisputed master of the coast.
Page 40 - A gallant stand was again made for some time on the main- deck ; but before one o'clock the ship was captured, her cables cut, and she was steered triumphantly out of the harbour, under the fire of the whole of the north face of the castle.
Page 336 - The season of copulation is the end of winter, and the period of gestation three months. Such is the lion of Chili ; it may, perhaps, in other parts of America, offer some shades of discrimination, as I have been informed that those of Peru have a longer and more pointed muzzle. The pagi inhabits the thickest forests and the most inaccessible mountains, from whence it makes incursions into the plains to attack domestic animals, particularly horses, whose flesh it prefers to that of any other. In...
Page 42 - ... besides a supply of cordage and other articles for two years. A gun-boat of four guns, which lay directly in the passage of our boats, was boarded and towed out on the following morning. " I hope the capture of the flag-ship Esmeralda, secured by booms, batteries, and gun-boats, in a situation always before deemed impregnable, and in sight of the capital, where the fact cannot be concealed, will produce a moral effect, greater than might be expected under other circumstances. " I have great satisfaction...
Page 371 - ... in this painful situation cannot be imagined. I ran with my two boys to their mother and their aunt ; and by the time I joined them, the great shock was ended ; it continued about two minutes. After a lapse of about three minutes, the agitation returned violently, and continued for about a minute, when several of the strong pillars of the corridor were shivered. During this time there was a loud rumbling noise, like the distant echo of thunder in a mountainous country. The heaving of the ground...
Page 241 - He was pronounced by an English traveller, as " the handsomest man he had ever seen in either hemisphere," and undoubtedly his tall, athletic, and beautifully proportioned person, his almost Herculean strength, the elegance of his manners, and his impetuous valour in battle, gave the impression rather of a royal knight of chivalry, than of a republican soldier.* The influence and popularity which in a few short years he acquired in his adopted country, by his own unaided exertions, and under the...