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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... sent up the river by an English house to take down some hides which their agent had collected in the province . All the good things and all the good cooking of Goya were put in requisition for the " convite . " To many native dainties ...
... sent up the river by an English house to take down some hides which their agent had collected in the province . All the good things and all the good cooking of Goya were put in requisition for the " convite . " To many native dainties ...
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... sent home supported by his two orderlies . Old Gonzalez got to be on the best terms with the modest Duval , and , I think , almost went the length of promising to let him have Rosita ; while Duvàl could do nothing but look , in return ...
... sent home supported by his two orderlies . Old Gonzalez got to be on the best terms with the modest Duval , and , I think , almost went the length of promising to let him have Rosita ; while Duvàl could do nothing but look , in return ...
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... sent their father home in such a plight ; and Rosita was in the highest spirits of all , though it is im- possible to say what might be the cause of it . For what could it signify to her that she saw her papa and Duval enter the house ...
... sent their father home in such a plight ; and Rosita was in the highest spirits of all , though it is im- possible to say what might be the cause of it . For what could it signify to her that she saw her papa and Duval enter the house ...
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... was only to be done on horseback . As he sent up , therefore , into the now placid air the curling smoke of his segar , he watched with no small anxiety our communings with the chacarero . AN EQUESTRIAN FETE . 57 He fancied they boded him.
... was only to be done on horseback . As he sent up , therefore , into the now placid air the curling smoke of his segar , he watched with no small anxiety our communings with the chacarero . AN EQUESTRIAN FETE . 57 He fancied they boded him.
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... sent off to us , as soon as he got to Buenos Ayres , a coach drawn by six stout mules ; but they could not make out the journey that day . The coach was with us , however , early the following day , relay mules had been left half way ...
... sent off to us , as soon as he got to Buenos Ayres , a coach drawn by six stout mules ; but they could not make out the journey that day . The coach was with us , however , early the following day , relay mules had been left half way ...
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