History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres: Containing the Most Accurate Details Relative to the Topography, History, Commerce, Population, Government, &c. &c. of that Valuable ColonyH.D. Symonds, 1807 - 576 Seiten |
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History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres: Containing the Most Accurate ... Samuel Hull Wilcocke Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
History of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres: Containing the Most Accurate ... Samuel Hull Wilcocke Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
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Seite 16 - They have also a tradition amongst them, that they originally came from another country, inhabited by very wicked people, and had traversed a great lake, which was narrow, shallow, and full of islands, where they had suffered great misery, it being always winter, with ice and deep snow.
Seite 349 - Luxan, fifty miles distant. My principal object was to have the country reconnoitred, and to see what were the dispositions of the inhabitants ; but with the avowed object of escorting back some of the treasure which had been taken from here, and to prevent its following the Viceroy, which...
Seite 337 - Englishman, who was pilot for the river, and had been taken by the Narcissus out of a Portuguese vessel, that it was an excellent place, and an easy access from it into the country. As soon as the wind would permit, on the...
Seite 335 - It was immediately determined to attack the capital; and no time was lost in removing the marine battalion to the Narcissus, the Encounter, and the transports, for the purpose of proceeding to...
Seite 489 - ... exertions; but when opulence pours in suddenly, and with too full a stream, it overturns all sober plans of industry, and brings along with it a taste for what is wild and extravagant, and daring in business or in action.
Seite 340 - Kennet of the engineers to reconnoitre the sides of the river, and found that on our side we had little or no cover to protect us, whilst the enemy were drawn up behind hedges, houses, and in the shipping on the opposite bank, the river not thirty yards wide.
Seite 171 - Plata, by a kind of sluice made of osiers, woven very strong and thick. The water thus admitted is sent by smaller channels round the beds, and a quantity of it is, generally, retained in a large basin or reservoir, of which there is one in every extensive garden. The water, when thus retained, is very clear and sparkling, but by its great coldness, it is apt, when drunk, to bring on dysenteries and other dangerous diseases.
Seite 431 - They believe that their good deities made the world, and that they first created the Indians in their caves, gave them the lance, the bow and arrows, and the stone-bowls, to fight and hunt with, and then turned them out to shift for themselves.
Seite 338 - Helena infantry, of one hundred and twenty yards in the rear, with two field-pieces, with orders to make face to the right or left, as either of our flanks should be threatened by his cavalry; I had two six-pounders on each flank, and two howitzers in the centre of the first line. In this order I advanced against the enemy, and after we had got within range of his guns, a tongue of swamp crossed our front, and obliged me to halt...
Seite 338 - The nature of the ground was such, that I was under the necessity of going directly to his front ; and to make my line, as much as I could, equal to his, I formed all the troops into one line, except the St.