Letters on South America: Comprising Travels on the Banks of the Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Volume 1J. Murray, 1843 Collection of letters written to General William Miller, Field Marshall of Peru. |
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... doubloons and dollars , others various sorts of mer- chandize , Don Pedro bade adieu for a season to Corrientes , and took to his favourite occupation of " cutting the camp . " He first , however , roused from their lethargy or timidity ...
... doubloons and dollars , others various sorts of mer- chandize , Don Pedro bade adieu for a season to Corrientes , and took to his favourite occupation of " cutting the camp . " He first , however , roused from their lethargy or timidity ...
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... doubloons tendered in the way of loan , never expected to be returned ; tempting favours , in short , of every kind , which , though it may be easy to abstain from asking , it is not so easy to refuse when pressed upon us by a frank and ...
... doubloons tendered in the way of loan , never expected to be returned ; tempting favours , in short , of every kind , which , though it may be easy to abstain from asking , it is not so easy to refuse when pressed upon us by a frank and ...
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... doubloons , therefore , became in- dispensable . We found that for active operations our point was , not the city of Corrientes , but the port of Goya , and there it was further determined I should fix my head quarters . PORT OF GOYA ...
... doubloons , therefore , became in- dispensable . We found that for active operations our point was , not the city of Corrientes , but the port of Goya , and there it was further determined I should fix my head quarters . PORT OF GOYA ...
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... doubloons , no matter whether belonging to you or to themselves . The Creoles who thus took " habilitaciones , " always did so at a great disadvantage : they paid high prices for their goods , and got low ones for their produce . In ...
... doubloons , no matter whether belonging to you or to themselves . The Creoles who thus took " habilitaciones , " always did so at a great disadvantage : they paid high prices for their goods , and got low ones for their produce . In ...
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... doubloons carefully stowed away in two portmanteaus , placed as fixtures in the carriage , and watched by myself and my dog . My pistols were loaded , ―my double - barrel , too ; and all was prepared , in case of need , for a fight on ...
... doubloons carefully stowed away in two portmanteaus , placed as fixtures in the carriage , and watched by myself and my dog . My pistols were loaded , ―my double - barrel , too ; and all was prepared , in case of need , for a fight on ...
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arms arrival Artigas Artigas's Artigueño asado brother brought Buenos Ayres bullocks called carts cattle Charlotte Correntinos Corrientes cottage countenance courier Don Felipe Don Guillerm Don Jorge Don Korkey DON PANCHO Don Pedro Campbell Don Pedro Quesnèy Don Ysidoro Martinez Doña Florinda door doubloons Edwardo English estancia estanciero eyes feelings Francia's galpones Gaucho gave George Washington Tuckerman give governor Goya hand hides horse inhabitants journey knew ladies land Leyva London looked manner màté Mendez MILLER never night once ourselves Paraguay Paraná Parkin penitentes peons Pèpe Philip Parkin piles polacca poncho port portmanteaus Postlethwaite province of Corrientes Quesney racter rentinas rientes River Plate round sabre segars Seigneur skins South America Spanish stood Stroud supper things thousand tiger tion town travelling troop Vangtur vessel W. P. R. LETTER waggons wild Woodbine Parish Your's ZAPO
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Página 28 - His face was not only burnt almost to blackness by the sun, but it was blistered to the eyes ; while large pieces of shrivelled skin stood ready to fall from his parched lips. He wore a pair of plain ear-rings, a foraging cap, a tattered poncho, blue jacket, with tarnished red facings; a large knife in a leathern sheath ; a pair of potro boots, and rusty iron spurs, with rowels an inch and a half in diameter. His horse was a noble animal, and sweated profusely.
Página 126 - ... lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross divides the weekly bread : He feeds yon almshouse, neat, but void of state, Where age and want sit smiling at the gate : Him portion'd maids, apprentic'd orphans blest, The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives: Is there a variance ? enter but his door, Balk'd are the courts, and contest is no more : Despairing quacks...
Página 263 - ... pence a-head more ; the staking and cleaning the hides, once more, three pence; and lastly, a like sum for the carting to Goya, making the whole cost one shilling for each skin. Of this contract ten thousand animals were delivered ; the skins were packed in bales and sold in Buenos Ayres at six rials or three shillings each, and they sold ultimately in England for seven or eight shillings ; that is, the skins sold for about 2,800 to 3,000 per cent, on the first cost of the horse from which the...
Página 27 - ... uncombed of the same colour, matted with perspiration, and powdered with dust. His face was not only burnt almost to blackness by the sun, but it was blistered to the eyes ; while large pieces of shrivelled skin stood ready to fall from his parched lips. He wore a pair of plain...
Página 263 - I have still in my possession," says Mr. Robertson, "a contract which I made in Goya, with an estanciero, for twenty thousand wild horses, to be taken on his estate, at the price of a medio each ; that is to say, three pence for each horse or mare ! The slaughter of them cost three pence...
Página 263 - ... whole not one shilling for each skin. Of this contract ten thousand animals were delivered ; the skins were packed in bales and sold in Buenos Ayres at six reals, or three shillings each, and they sold ultimately in England for seven or eight shillings, that is, for about twentyeight or thirty times the first cost of the horse from which the skin was taken. Such is the accumulative value sometimes of the produce which is taken from the hands of the grower in one country before it gets into the...
Página 178 - ... of South America. The higher class of estancieros, seeing the new order of things established, and knowing they had now a sure and profitable market for their hides, were gradually up and stirring, many availing themselves of Don Pedro's help to re-organize their estancias, and to collect again their herds of cattle.
Página 230 - ... Being a good-natured man, he laughed loudest himself at the jokes which he did not half understand ; and when subsequently the guitarrista took him off to admiration in his mode of making love, Don Felipe was the most pleased man in the company. The guitarreros of South America, like the Italian buffos of the lower class, have all a facility greater or less, of acting the improvisatore. They have also a good deal of wit, and a perception of character, the more clear in proportion to the elements...
Página 178 - ... the anarchy and disorder of the revolutionary period. A certain gaucho, Don Pedro Campbell, was hired by one of the Robertsons 'to cut the camp'. No small difficulty was experienced at first in bringing back all the peons or Gauchos to their old habits of labour and subordination [Robertson wrote], so completely had they been demoralized by the lawless life which, as Artigueno soldiers, many of them had led. But high wages, regularly paid, worked wonders. In many parts, indeed, the bolder and...
Página 179 - Canalla! thieves! villains! assassins!" he would lay about him with stick, knife, or sabre, whichever came first to his hand. With the quickness of thought he would thus disperse the dismayed crew, and then burst into a horse laugh as he leant on the counter of the pulperia. Such was Don Pedro's mode of reading the riot act in the province of Corrientes. In these various ways the country, as if by magic, started into industrious life and mercantile activity, in every section of its wide extent.