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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... wished - for port , and the rapture with which we received a number of our fellow adventurers , of the 1st division , who had hastened on board to greet our arrival , was soon changed to mourning , at the recital of those scenes of want ...
... wished - for port , and the rapture with which we received a number of our fellow adventurers , of the 1st division , who had hastened on board to greet our arrival , was soon changed to mourning , at the recital of those scenes of want ...
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... wished - for harbour . We had al- ready passed the first bogus or passage of the gulph of Paria , and , as the sun set , in all his ma- jesty , burnishing the shores of Trinidad , we could perceive the distant appearances of ...
... wished - for harbour . We had al- ready passed the first bogus or passage of the gulph of Paria , and , as the sun set , in all his ma- jesty , burnishing the shores of Trinidad , we could perceive the distant appearances of ...
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... 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 and attention with which I was honoured on this , as upon my returning ...
... 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 and attention with which I was honoured on this , as upon my returning ...
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... wished , we could swing with the greatest comfort . As we had eaten nothing for the entire day , we made our wants known , when there was placed before us , after an interval of about an hour , a single rape cake , and a small piece of ...
... wished , we could swing with the greatest comfort . As we had eaten nothing for the entire day , we made our wants known , when there was placed before us , after an interval of about an hour , a single rape cake , and a small piece of ...
Page 107
... wished for shore , before it was completely dark , but their strength was ex- hausted , by the previous labours of the day , and our persuasions could not induce them to attempt crossing the river , the current of which was still very ...
... wished for shore , before it was completely dark , but their strength was ex- hausted , by the previous labours of the day , and our persuasions could not induce them to attempt crossing the river , the current of which was still very ...
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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...