 | General history - 1824 - 554 σελίδες
...the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro; we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...see something very magnificent ; but it was nothing better than a large thatched barn, partitioned off into several rooms. The governor was sitting at... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 548 σελίδες
...the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro ; we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...to have been before, excepting a few who really had match -locks, the only fire-arms they have here. The soldiers, upon our journey, had given a pompous... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1838 - 672 σελίδες
...our journey had given us a pom" pous account of El Palacio del Rey, as they styled the Go" vernor's House, and therefore we expected to see something " very magnificent, but it was nothing better than a huge " thatched barn partitioned off into several rooms.'" Narrative, p. 159. Governor's... | |
 | Dangers - 1848 - 452 σελίδες
...the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro ; we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...el Palacio del Key, or the king's palace, as they styled the governor's house, and therefore we expected to see something very magnificent ; but it was... | |
 | Horatio Bridge - 1848 - 306 σελίδες
...the main art so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro, we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...mentioned those to have been before, excepting a few who had matchlocks, the only firearms they have here. The soldiers, upon our journey, had given a pompous... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 458 σελίδες
...The " soldiers upon our journey had given us a pompous account of El "Palacio del Hey, as they styled the Governor's House, and therefore " we expected...see something very magnificent, but it was nothing " better than a huge thatched barn partitioned off into several rooms." Narrative, p. 159. staff of... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 470 σελίδες
..."The soldiers "upon our journey had given us a pompous account of El Palacio del Hey, "as they styled the Governor's House, and therefore we expected to...see "something very magnificent, but it was nothing better than a huge " thatched barn partitioned off into several rooms." Narrative , p. 159. gowns and... | |
 | Dangers - 1854 - 446 σελίδες
...the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro ; we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...to have been before, excepting a few who really had match -locks, the only fire-arms they have here. The soldiers, upon our journey, had given a pompous... | |
 | John Bulkeley - 2004 - 278 σελίδες
...the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution was taken here as at Castro; we passed through a whole lane of soldiers, armed...journey, had given a pompous account of el Palacio del Rey, or the king's palace, as they stiled the governor's house, and therefore we expected to see something... | |
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Most of the soldiers dismounted and embarked with us, a few only being sent round with the horses. It was three days before we arrived at Chaco, as the tides between this island and the main are so rapid that no boat can stem them. The same precaution... 