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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... ourselves peculiarly for- tunate in being able to procure an interpreter , the only one residing within a circumference of some miles . The walls of the house , of which we were now inmates , were about ten feet in height , the centre ...
... ourselves peculiarly for- tunate in being able to procure an interpreter , the only one residing within a circumference of some miles . The walls of the house , of which we were now inmates , were about ten feet in height , the centre ...
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... ourselves upon the gun , request- ing ROMANO to let us know something of ARIS- MENDI , whose " look - out Tower " he pointed out , at some distance , on the top of a commanding eminence . ROMANO , " nothing loath , " commenc- ed his ...
... ourselves upon the gun , request- ing ROMANO to let us know something of ARIS- MENDI , whose " look - out Tower " he pointed out , at some distance , on the top of a commanding eminence . ROMANO , " nothing loath , " commenc- ed his ...
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... ourselves to be a couple of days good sailing . The fact was - that the strong current occasioned by the Orinoco emp- tying itself , during the rainy season , with such violence into the gulph of Paria , had not only retarded our ...
... ourselves to be a couple of days good sailing . The fact was - that the strong current occasioned by the Orinoco emp- tying itself , during the rainy season , with such violence into the gulph of Paria , had not only retarded our ...
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... with coffee twice a day , which in the West India islands is so re- markably cheap . Refreshing ourselves for a few days , and rapidly recruiting in health and spirits , we were employ ed in drawing up a petition , to be presented 47.
... with coffee twice a day , which in the West India islands is so re- markably cheap . Refreshing ourselves for a few days , and rapidly recruiting in health and spirits , we were employ ed in drawing up a petition , to be presented 47.
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... ourselves the dupes of interested impostors ; -or , pursue the path of glory , unmindful of the hazardous diffi- culties which might be opposed to us , was now the question . Thus wavering , Colonel MEADE had but little difficulty in ...
... ourselves the dupes of interested impostors ; -or , pursue the path of glory , unmindful of the hazardous diffi- culties which might be opposed to us , was now the question . Thus wavering , Colonel MEADE had but little difficulty in ...
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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...