Extracts from a Journal: Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico, in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, Volume 1E. Littell, 1824 Details the author's travels and visits to different ports on the western coasts of South America and Mexico. |
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Page 113 - ... feet laterally, so as to throw him on his side, without endangering his knees or his face. Before the horse can recover the shock, the rider dismounts, and snatching his...
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Page 211 - ... burial to be destroyed by the gallinazos, a species of vulture. The sergeant, who superintended this last part of the ceremony, was personally inimical to Benavides, for murdering some of his relations ; and, to gratify his revenge, drew his sword, and, while they were dragging the body of his foe to the pile, gave it a severe gash across the neck. The resolute Benavides bore this also without flinching, and lay like a dead man amongst the others, until it became dark ; he then contrived to extricate...
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Page 112 - This, which takes so long to describe, is the work of a few seconds, during which, the other horseman gallops past, and, before the bull has time to recover from the shock, places the lasso over his horns, and continues advancing till it also is at the full stretch.
Page 206 - It was more creditable to assume the full authority in a manly and open manner, than to mock the people with the semblance of a Republic, and, at the same time, to visit them with the reality of a despotism.