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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Page 38
... natural courage and firmness of character ; his round broad face is slightly marked with the small - pox , and bears evident testimony of its fre- quent exposure to the varieties of a tropical cli- mate : bushy black hair , dark ...
... natural courage and firmness of character ; his round broad face is slightly marked with the small - pox , and bears evident testimony of its fre- quent exposure to the varieties of a tropical cli- mate : bushy black hair , dark ...
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... nature , without a sufficiency of food to alleviate them ; flying from anticipated evils still more dreadful , in a vessel , whose only berth allowed was occupied by a companion in fever ; and destitute of clothing sufficient to resist ...
... nature , without a sufficiency of food to alleviate them ; flying from anticipated evils still more dreadful , in a vessel , whose only berth allowed was occupied by a companion in fever ; and destitute of clothing sufficient to resist ...
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... nature of the soil , character of its inhabitants , & c . as I could have wished . It would be the extreme of injustice in me , were I to omit thus publicly , an expression of my acknowledgments for the innumerable instances of kindness ...
... nature of the soil , character of its inhabitants , & c . as I could have wished . It would be the extreme of injustice in me , were I to omit thus publicly , an expression of my acknowledgments for the innumerable instances of kindness ...
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... nature ; the usual consequence of intestine broils ; the inhabitants having all fallen sacrifices to the ferocity of one or other of the warring parties . Our savage host produced for our inspection , a mill which he made use of , to ...
... nature ; the usual consequence of intestine broils ; the inhabitants having all fallen sacrifices to the ferocity of one or other of the warring parties . Our savage host produced for our inspection , a mill which he made use of , to ...
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... nature's beauties , forgot for the moment the perils we had escaped , and were still to encounter . The tide having turned , we cast anchor close to the shore ; the sun had gone down , when the sky became clouded , and with the darkness ...
... nature's beauties , forgot for the moment the perils we had escaped , and were still to encounter . The tide having turned , we cast anchor close to the shore ; the sun had gone down , when the sky became clouded , and with the darkness ...
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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...