Three years in the Pacific; containing notices of Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, &c. in 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, by an officer in the United States' navy [W.S.W. Ruschenberger]. |
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Page 179 - The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat": All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; tut do ye not after their worlds: for they say, and do not.
Page 118 - This hempseed with my virgin hand I sow, Who shall my true love be, the crop shall mow.
Page 118 - Come forth, come forth, my maidens, 't is the day of good St. John, It is the Baptist's morning that breaks the hills upon ; And let us all go forth together, while the blessed day is new, To dress with flowers the snow-white wether, ere the sun has dried the dew.
Page 389 - All the merchandise consumed in the interior, is conveyed thither on the mule's back. The proverbial stubbornness of the mule is rarely manifested here ; a liberal bestowal of dry blows, made efficacious by abusive epithets, has • The same instrument is used by the negroes in Brazil.
Page 205 - Lo! Cintra's glorious Eden intervenes In variegated maze of mount and glen. Ah, me! what hand can pencil guide, or pen, To follow half on which the eye dilates...
Page 190 - Immediately beneath are found the bodies in graves or holes, not more than three feet in depth. The body was placed in a squatting posture, with the knees drawn up, and the hands applied to the sides of the head. The whole was enveloped in a coarse but close fabric, with stripes of red, which has withstood wonderfully the destroying effects of ages, for these interments were made before the conquest, though at what period is not known. A cord was passed about the neck on the...
Page 255 - For whereso'er the shrieking victim hath Poured forth his blood beneath the assassin's knife, Some hand erects a cross of mouldering lath, And grove and glen with thousands such are rife Throughout this purple land, where law secures not life.
Page 39 - Marques mi Senor !" — To arms, to arms, for all of those of Chile are coming to kill my lord, the Marques.
Page 117 - When thus till night they daunced have, they through the fire amaine, With striving mindes doe runne, and all their hearbes they cast therein, And...
Page 118 - At eve last midsummer no sleep I sought, But to the field a bag of hemp-seed brought : I...