Travels in Various Parts of Peru: Including a Year's Residence in Potosi, Volume 2H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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... mines of Peru . - Extreme heat in Santiago del Estero.— Barbarous Indians . - A Cordovese beauty . - Recent disco- very of silver mines in Cordova . - A great man . — Arrival at Buenos Ayres . - Depression of the paper currency.— Embark ...
... mines of Peru . - Extreme heat in Santiago del Estero.— Barbarous Indians . - A Cordovese beauty . - Recent disco- very of silver mines in Cordova . - A great man . — Arrival at Buenos Ayres . - Depression of the paper currency.— Embark ...
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... Philip II . Vol . i . B. VIII . and X. + It has been already mentioned that by the mita con- scription alone , upwards of eight millions of the natives have perished in the mines . 16 RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS . length of time continued by ...
... Philip II . Vol . i . B. VIII . and X. + It has been already mentioned that by the mita con- scription alone , upwards of eight millions of the natives have perished in the mines . 16 RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS . length of time continued by ...
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... not in vain , for I found the packet of papers upon the table of the agent , where they would have remained , during his correctly re- ported absence in a distant part of the coun- MINES OF ORURO . 29 try . But on the.
... not in vain , for I found the packet of papers upon the table of the agent , where they would have remained , during his correctly re- ported absence in a distant part of the coun- MINES OF ORURO . 29 try . But on the.
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... mines of silver and tin , which formerly supported a brisk and extensive commerce , now nearly extinct from want of those re- sources which were absorbed in the all - consum- ing evils of civil war . The tin - mines of Oruro have long ...
... mines of silver and tin , which formerly supported a brisk and extensive commerce , now nearly extinct from want of those re- sources which were absorbed in the all - consum- ing evils of civil war . The tin - mines of Oruro have long ...
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... mine . Utensils of the most com- mon use , as well as articles of luxury and or- nament , such as pier - tables in the principal apartments , frames of pictures and of mirrors , foot - stools , pots , and pans , were all of silver ...
... mine . Utensils of the most com- mon use , as well as articles of luxury and or- nament , such as pier - tables in the principal apartments , frames of pictures and of mirrors , foot - stools , pots , and pans , were all of silver ...
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Travels in Various Parts of Peru: Including a Year's Residence in ..., Volume 2 Edmond Temple Visualização integral - 1830 |
Travels in Various Parts of Peru: Including a Year's Residence in ..., Volume 2 Edmond Temple Visualização integral - 1830 |
Travels in Various Parts of Peru: Including a Year's Residence in ..., Volume 2 Edmond Temple Visualização integral - 1833 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Afternoon animals appeared Arica arrived birlocho Buenos Ayres captain cargo ceremony chief commissioner Chiriguano Cholas Chuquisaca Cinti clou cloudy Cochabamba cold in shade consequence corregidors Cusco dollars Don Manuel DON SEBASTIAN doubt enemy entered favour feel friar hands head honour horse hot in sun hundred Inca Indians inhabitants José JOURNAL journey Jujui La Paz lady leagues letter Lima MARQUIS OF YAVI Matute means ment mines morning mountains mules natives never night noon O'Conor observed obtained occasion Oruro Otavi pardon party passed peones persons Peru possession Potosi present proceeded proved province of Tarija rain rebels received respect road round Salta SEBASTIAN DE SEGUROLA seen Señor shillings siege silver snow South America Spaniards Spanish tains thing thousand thunder tion town traveller troops Tupac Amaro Tupac Catari Upper Peru village weather whilst whole YAVI
Passagens conhecidas
Página 289 - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
Página 63 - Ev'n the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, And trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. Bear me, some god, to Baia's gentle seats, Or cover me in Umbria's green retreats ; Where western gales eternally reside, And all the seasons lavish all their pride : Blossoms, and fruits, and flowers together rise, And the whole year in gay confusion lies.
Página 40 - A smile of welcome, with a few accompanying words of kindness, and a shake of the hand from the Cura, establishes you, in nine cases out of ten, with as much ease and freedom as in your own house.
Página 465 - Books, says Bacon, can never teach the use of books. The student must learn by commerce with mankind to reduce his speculations to practice, and accommodate his knowledge to the purposes of life.
Página 238 - For several weeks past, every artist and mechanic of tolerable ingenuity has been employed in making and repairing dolls, images, and figures of sundry kinds, also in setting up and painting altars in every respectable house; whilst all the females have been equally busy in preparing dresses for those dolls, making artificial flowers and embroideries, and embellishing the best apartment in their respective houses for the display of what is here termed el...
Página 397 - The occurrence of these bones at such an enormous elevation in the regions of eternal snow, and consequently in a spot now unfrequented by such animals as the horse and deer, can, I think, be explained only by supposing them to be of antediluvian origin, and that the carcases of the animals were drifted to their present place, and lodged in sand, by the diluvial waters.
Página 308 - When a lady selects a gentleman from the company, by beckoning, or calling him to take her glass and sip after her, the compliment is then highly enviable ; and whether her lips be pale and shrivelled by the wintry effect of years, or cherry-ripe and pouting in the fragrance of summer, he is bound by the well-understood laws of respect, etiquette, honour, gallantry, love, and all their little jealousies, to imprint his own lips upon the precise spot where those were placed which preceded him, and...
Página 241 - ... assemblages, in cathedrals and churches, accompanied by all the pomp and magnificence that the art of man is capable of inventing, can, by so much as the importance of one grain of sand, obtain greater consideration in the sight of the Omnipotent Being, than the meanest of those exhibitions in the hut of the simple Indian.
Página 62 - Cordilleras de los Andes, cannot be considered in any less character. These mountains appear to rise out of the plain on which you are riding, and your expectation is that you must actually arrive at them, for no obstacle is to be seen betwixt you and them. Whilst you are musing on the how and...
Página 310 - At the second course, these compliments become general, when in the space of a few minutes, you may have been favoured with a mouthful from every fork at the table, whilst your own has gone the round of the whole company. Plates and dishes being removed, bottles of claret, of Frontignac, of cider, and of spruce-beer, were intermingled upon the table, and the speedy consumption of the beverage proved it to be agreeable to the guests. Toasts and sentiments, accompanied by speeches, went their round...