Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 2J. Murray, 1843 - Argentina Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... Horse- manship Page 35 LETTER XXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . Great Change for the better , wrought by the Revolution in Buenos Ayres - The Porteños try to please John Bull- Their Abstemiousness rather against this -- The ...
... Horse- manship Page 35 LETTER XXVII . THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER . Great Change for the better , wrought by the Revolution in Buenos Ayres - The Porteños try to please John Bull- Their Abstemiousness rather against this -- The ...
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... Horses -Increase of the Cattle - Shipment of Specie - Particulars of Buenos Ayres Incumbrances Paper Money - Pampa Indians - Their Mode of Life - Their Meals - Their Traffic -Milk - venders or Lecheros - Their Practices · 263 CONTENTS ...
... Horses -Increase of the Cattle - Shipment of Specie - Particulars of Buenos Ayres Incumbrances Paper Money - Pampa Indians - Their Mode of Life - Their Meals - Their Traffic -Milk - venders or Lecheros - Their Practices · 263 CONTENTS ...
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... horse - skin leggings , called potro boots , coming over the instep , but leaving the toes bare ; horse pistols and knives stuck in their girdles , and carbines in their hands ; 22 THE FLITTING . such were to be our guardians.
... horse - skin leggings , called potro boots , coming over the instep , but leaving the toes bare ; horse pistols and knives stuck in their girdles , and carbines in their hands ; 22 THE FLITTING . such were to be our guardians.
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... horse pistols . I involuntarily started back , but in the coolest and most deliberate man- ner , although in an under voice , M'Dougall spoke thus . " I know your lives are in imminent danger , I have been told you are both to be shot ...
... horse pistols . I involuntarily started back , but in the coolest and most deliberate man- ner , although in an under voice , M'Dougall spoke thus . " I know your lives are in imminent danger , I have been told you are both to be shot ...
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... horse , and treated our proposal of his doing so as a mere joke ; but we plied him very hard , and got him by degrees to look to the astounding reality of his travelling twelve miles on the back of a wild South American colt . The ...
... horse , and treated our proposal of his doing so as a mere joke ; but we plied him very hard , and got him by degrees to look to the astounding reality of his travelling twelve miles on the back of a wild South American colt . The ...
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Page 251 - Talibus orabat dictis, arasque tenebat, cum sic orsa loqui vates : ' Sate sanguine divom, 125 Tros Anchisiade, facilis descensus Averno ; noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis ; sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, hoc opus, hie labor est.
Page 117 - ... the prejudices which are favourable to tyranny, that if we should unhappily be succeeded by men of sentiments less pure than ourselves, they may not find in the customs of the people any thing to assist them in mocking at their rights. This preamble was followed by a decree, that there should be an absolute, perfect, and identical equality, between the president and the other members of the junta. Four of the articles of this decree show curiously in what manner these men were juggling the people.
Page 257 - ... are guided by justice, do hereby solemnly declare in the face of the world that it is the unanimous and indubitable will of these Provinces to dissolve the intolerable bonds which hitherto connected them with the Kings of Spain, to recover the rights of which they were divested, and to clothe themselves with the high character of a free nation, independent of Kinç Ferdinand VII, his successors, and the mother country.
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Page 256 - ... city of San Miguel del Tucuman, on the 9th of July, 1816, the ordinary sitting having terminated, the Congress of the United Provinces continued its former discussion on the great and august object of the independence of the countries which form them: constant and decided was the cry of the whole land for its solemn emancipation from the despotic power of the kings of Spain ; but the representatives, nevertheless, consecrated to so great a...
Page 247 - Fe, a popular movement took place, which had for its object a system of absolute equality; but it was put down by the bayonets of General Viamont, a blunt and honest soldier, but a great disciplinarian, who had long ruled the inhabitants rather despotically, and who, accustoraed to rigid military subordination, was anything but a forbearing sub-delegate from the metropolis.