British Exploits in South America: A History of British Activities in Exploration, Military Adventure, Diplomacy, Science, and Trade, in Latin AmericanCentury Company, 1917 - 585 Seiten |
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... SOUTH AMERICA . CHAPTER PAGE I 3 • II THE FIRST ENGLISH MARINERS TO SAIL THE SPANISH • · · MAIN III THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA IV THE BUCCANEERS 15 · 46 80 PART II THE BRITISH IN COLONIAL SOUTH AMERICA V EARLY ...
... SOUTH AMERICA . CHAPTER PAGE I 3 • II THE FIRST ENGLISH MARINERS TO SAIL THE SPANISH • · · MAIN III THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA IV THE BUCCANEERS 15 · 46 80 PART II THE BRITISH IN COLONIAL SOUTH AMERICA V EARLY ...
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... Latin American William Henry Koebel. CHAPTER XVIII THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL ( V ) PAGE 340 • XIX THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL ( VI ) XX THE BRITISH IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN INTERNAL WARS · 364 · • 374 · PART IV SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY OBSERVERS XXI ...
... Latin American William Henry Koebel. CHAPTER XVIII THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL ( V ) PAGE 340 • XIX THE BRITISH IN BRAZIL ( VI ) XX THE BRITISH IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN INTERNAL WARS · 364 · • 374 · PART IV SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY OBSERVERS XXI ...
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... South American Home Frontispiece FACING PAGE Sir John Hawkins Sir Francis Drake The Santos River in Brazil · Old Fort at Mouth of Santos River , Brazil Island of ... South American Indians South American Cattle South American Oxen Early PAGE.
... South American Home Frontispiece FACING PAGE Sir John Hawkins Sir Francis Drake The Santos River in Brazil · Old Fort at Mouth of Santos River , Brazil Island of ... South American Indians South American Cattle South American Oxen Early PAGE.
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... South American Indians Old Print of the Llama and Indians A Modern British South American Ship · Early Type of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Ship Railroad Construction in South America Forest Clearing in South America . Viaduct ...
... South American Indians Old Print of the Llama and Indians A Modern British South American Ship · Early Type of Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Ship Railroad Construction in South America Forest Clearing in South America . Viaduct ...
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... Latin American William Henry Koebel. BRITISH EXPLOITS IN SOUTH AMERICA CHAPTER I THE ROMANTIC PERIOD IN SOUTH AMERICA The charm of the Americas - Iberian navigators - Prince Henry of Portu- gal and his seamen - Some famous captains ...
... Latin American William Henry Koebel. BRITISH EXPLOITS IN SOUTH AMERICA CHAPTER I THE ROMANTIC PERIOD IN SOUTH AMERICA The charm of the Americas - Iberian navigators - Prince Henry of Portu- gal and his seamen - Some famous captains ...
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Admiral adventures Amazon Ambrose O'Higgins Anson appears Argentine army arrived ashore Bernardo O'Higgins Bolivar Brazil Brazilian BRITISH EXPLOITS British Guiana bucaneers Buenos Aires Captain captured cause century Chile Chilean Cochrane Colombia colonies command concerning continent course crew cruise Drake early England English Englishman expedition EXPLOITS IN SOUTH fleet force frigate gallant Gaucho Guiana hand Hawkins hundred Indians instance Irish island John Juan lady land Lima London Mackenna Magellan Magellan Straits matter merchants Miller Montevideo moreover naval navigators Negro North notable occasion officers Pacific coast Paraguay party patriot Pedro period Peru Peruvian port Portugal Portuguese prisoners remarkable Richard Hawkins Rio de Janeiro river Plate royal sailed sailors San Martin Santos seems sent ship shore slaves soldiers South America Southern Spain Spaniards Spanish squadron tion took town troops tropical Valparaiso vessel Viceroy voyage waters Whithall young
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Seite 424 - For which of the kings of this land before Her Majesty had their banners ever seen in the Caspian sea? which of them hath ever dealt with the Emperor of Persia, as her Majesty hath done, and obtained for her merchants large and loving privileges?
Seite 401 - ... about a yard from the ground, as if to ask me what business I had to take liberties with his tail. I let him come, hissing and open-mouthed, within two feet of my face, and then, with all the force I was master of, I drove my fist, shielded by my hat, full in his jaws. He was stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me ; I then allowed him to coil himself round my body, and marched,...
Seite 454 - MAWE'S (HL) Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic, crossing the Andes in the Northern Provinces of Peru, and descending the great River Maranon.
Seite 156 - Those commanders and chieftains that shoot at honour and abundance shall find there more rich and beautiful cities, more temples adorned with golden images, more sepulchres filled with treasure, than either Cortez found in Mexico, or Pizarro in Peru ; and the shining glory of this conquest will eclipse all those so far extended beams of the Spanish nation.
Seite 424 - Constaninople ? who ever found English Consuls and Agents at Tripolis, in Syria, at Aleppo, at Babylon, at Balsara, and which is more, who ever heard of Englishmen! at Goa before now?
Seite 26 - If all the miseries and troublesome affairs of this sorrowful voyage should be perfectly and thoroughly written, there should need a painful man with his pen, and as great a time as he had that wrote the lives and deaths of the...
Seite 409 - The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar. Often, even in the still hours of mid-day, a sudden crash will be heard, resounding afar through the wilderness, as some great bough or entire tree falls to the ground. There are, besides, many sounds which it is impossible to account for.
Seite 457 - RESEARCHES INTO THE LOST HISTORIES OF AMERICA ; or, The Zodiac shown to be an Old Terrestrial Map, in which the Atlantic Isle is delineated ; so that Light can be thrown upon the Obscure Histories of the Earthworks and Ruined Cities of America. By WS Blacket.
Seite 32 - ... his cap with his gold band off his head, and ran a little distance from him, and shared it with his fellow, the cap to the one, and the band to the other.
Seite 401 - I laid hold of his tail with the left hand, 29 one knee being on the ground ; with the right I took off my hat, and held it as you would hold a shield for defence. "The snake instantly turned, and came on at me, with his head about a yard from the ground, as if to ask me what business I had to take liberties with his tail.