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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... NATIVE AND EUROPEAN GENERALS : And a variety of characteristic Anecdotes , HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED .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 - STREET , And sold by all the ...
... NATIVE AND EUROPEAN GENERALS : And a variety of characteristic Anecdotes , HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED .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 - STREET , And sold by all the ...
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... 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 by those heroes , by which their desertion from ...
... 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 by those heroes , by which their desertion from ...
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... natives , were the first human beings we had yet seen ; but such their timidity , that no persua- sion could induce them to come alongside . About ten o'clock A. M. a small schooner issued out of a bay at some distance , and bearing ...
... natives , were the first human beings we had yet seen ; but such their timidity , that no persua- sion could induce them to come alongside . About ten o'clock A. M. a small schooner issued out of a bay at some distance , and bearing ...
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... native land , were so nearly and dearly concerned . The landing of our Colonel upon the island was announced by a salute of Artillery from the neighbouring Forts ; in the mean time , we , enter- ing the bay of Juan Griego , cast anchor ...
... native land , were so nearly and dearly concerned . The landing of our Colonel upon the island was announced by a salute of Artillery from the neighbouring Forts ; in the mean time , we , enter- ing the bay of Juan Griego , cast anchor ...
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... Native Troops of Marguaritta two and two . THE BODY , Borne by Lancer Officers . General ENGLISH'S Staff . General DEVEREUX's Staff . Admiral BRION'S Staff . Captains of the Patriot Navy . Lieutenants of the Navy . Sailors , two and two ...
... Native Troops of Marguaritta two and two . THE BODY , Borne by Lancer Officers . General ENGLISH'S Staff . General DEVEREUX's Staff . Admiral BRION'S Staff . Captains of the Patriot Navy . Lieutenants of the Navy . Sailors , two and two ...
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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...