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 & 1820 |
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... SUPREME CHIEF : SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS NATIVE AND EUROPEAN GENERALS : And a variety of characteristic Anecdotes , HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED . William Jackson BY CAPTAIN W. J. ADAM , S. A. S. 2 Dublin : PUBLISHED BY R. M. TIMS , 85 , GRAFTON ...
... SUPREME CHIEF : SKETCHES OF THE VARIOUS NATIVE AND EUROPEAN GENERALS : And a variety of characteristic Anecdotes , HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED . William Jackson BY CAPTAIN W. J. ADAM , S. A. S. 2 Dublin : PUBLISHED BY R. M. TIMS , 85 , GRAFTON ...
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... 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 disconsolate and baffled in their prospects , Colonel ...
... 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 disconsolate and baffled in their prospects , Colonel ...
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... supreme Chief , having been appointed Military Governor of Marguaritta , returned thither , bringing with him such of his soldiers as had been wounded in the late warfare ; where a fever , brought on by over - exertion in the ...
... supreme Chief , having been appointed Military Governor of Marguaritta , returned thither , bringing with him such of his soldiers as had been wounded in the late warfare ; where a fever , brought on by over - exertion in the ...
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... Supreme Chief , BOLL- VAR ; an arduous task , particularly as we were unacquainted with his present quarters : should we , however , find it impossible to reach the camp of the General , we were instructed to proceed to Angustura , and ...
... Supreme Chief , BOLL- VAR ; an arduous task , particularly as we were unacquainted with his present quarters : should we , however , find it impossible to reach the camp of the General , we were instructed to proceed to Angustura , and ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 86 - ... blanket, with a hole cut in the centre, through which the head...
Page 137 - MEADE ; and that he looked with hope for the arrival of the rest of the Irish Legion.
Page 22 - As we proceeded we saw several flocks of a small species of Parrot...
Page 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...