A560    Beagle Library:     Spix, Johann Baptist von and Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp von. 1824. Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820. 2 vols. [Two volumes in one] London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.   Text

adapted to their local situation: a brown beaver hat with a very broad brim, which serves, at the same time, as a protection against the sun and the rain; a long very wide blue frock (poncho), with a hole at the top for the head; jacket and trowsers, of dark calico; high unblacked boots, fastened below the knee with a leathern strap and buckle; a long knife with a silver handle, which serves as a defence, and sticks either in the boot at the knee, or in the girdle, and [page] 30

A560    Beagle Library:     Spix, Johann Baptist von and Martius, Carl Friedrich Philipp von. 1824. Travels in Brazil, in the years 1817-1820. 2 vols. [Two volumes in one] London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.   Text

neck (Corvina rubricollis, Vieill.), and three species of pies, azure blue and white coloured (Corvus cyanopogno, Neuw.); parrots, as well as monkeys, became scarcer in this latitude, which may be chiefly owing to the proportionably less heat of the climate. From the Rio Ypanema, the grassy plains, interrupted by a little wood, extend southward to Curitiba, and into the capitania of S. Pedro, which is similar in the nature of the soil, its elevation above the sea, and vegetation, and is

A765    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1824. A selection of the geological memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines, together with a synoptical table of equivalent formations and M. Brongniart's table of the classification of mixed rocks. London: William Phillips.   Text   PDF

limestone.* The second formation comprises a great height of shelly marls constantly of a slate blue colour passing into ash grey, disposed in parallel beds, which contain some subordinate beds of a shelly argillaceous limestone, often bituminous like the marl near them; these marls are covered by an enormous mass of limestone generally oolitic, very often passing by insensible degrees into granular and into compact limestone; it is disposed in strata parallel to each other and conformable to the marl

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

. cold Thursday, 17 March 1887 Snow storm Friday, 18 March 1887 Ditto Wm came Saturday, 19 March 1887 Hen went !! March 1887 Sunday, 20 March 1887 !! Monday, 21 March 1887 Wm went Storm. Bad wind changed went out Tuesday, 22 March 1887 v. poorly w stom Wednesday, 23 March 1887 better went out – blue pill Thursday, 24 March 1887 v. uncomf Hen. came Friday, 25 March 1887 m. better blue pill Saturday, 26 March 1887 !! Hen went Leos came March 1887 Sunday, 27 March 1887 Monday, 28 March 1887 Leos went

A765    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1824. A selection of the geological memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines, together with a synoptical table of equivalent formations and M. Brongniart's table of the classification of mixed rocks. London: William Phillips.   Text   PDF

are of inequal grains; their colour is commonly yellowish, sometimes whitish, raiely blue, red, or ferruginous. This last colour belongs principally to the sandstone beds passing into puddingstone, named roussard by the country people, and which occur in the midst of the sands. Organized bodies are not generally found in the purely quartzose beds, but they are often very abundant in those containing calcareous matter; the most common are the orbicular gryphite, and some species of oysters

A765    Beagle Library:     De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1824. A selection of the geological memoirs contained in the Annales des Mines, together with a synoptical table of equivalent formations and M. Brongniart's table of the classification of mixed rocks. London: William Phillips.   Text   PDF

, considered the muschelkalk of Werner as identical with the lias. I am inclined to think that there is rather a parallelism than an identity of formation. The muschelkalk occupies the same place as the lias, it equally abounds in ammonites, terebratul , and encrinites; but the fossil species differ, and its structure is much more simple and uniform. The muschelkalk strata are not separated by the blue clays which abound in the lias. The middle strata of the latter possess a dull compact and even

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

1865 H. to London C. tol May 1865 Sunday, 14 May 1865 C. tol in mg. sick at 5. took blue pill Monday, 15 May 1865 in bed in mg. better till evg. sick abt 8. Tuesday, 16 May 1865 sick 8. am very uncomf. – - 2. - Wednesday, 17 May 1865 - 8 – - 2 - 9 in bed H E. D came home Thursday, 18 May 1865 I took blue pill faint after breakfast more comf afternoon - 9. 1.30 6.30 7.45 Friday, 19 May 1865 9 — twice 10 – 1.30 6.30 slight 9 — slight W. 1.30 3 3 3 2 2 1/2 1 Saturday, 20 May 1865 no sickness great

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

February 1888 Monday, 6 February 1888 Tuesday, 7 February 1888 Wednesday, 8 February 1888 Thursday, 9 February 1888 Friday, 10 February 1888 Saturday, 11 February 1888 February 1888 Sunday, 12 February 1888 1g Blue Monday, 13 February 1888 Dr Jackson Lady Wade Verralls Mrs Miss Stokes Horace dined v. well Tuesday, 14 February 1888 Snow – poorly Wednesday, 15 February 1888 well Miss Sharpley lunch – Mr Croft died Thursday, 16 February 1888 Friday, 17 February 1888 Clem. Emily Albert Dicey's lecture

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Thursday, 21 March 1867 Georgina Eliza went – snow N. wind for a fortnight Friday, 22 March 1867 weather changed Saturday, 23 March 1867 March 1867 Sunday, 24 March 1867 Monday, 25 March 1867 Tuesday, 26 March 1867 Wednesday, 27 March 1867 Hen. to Ravensbourne fever at 4 Thursday, 28 March 1867 Friday, 29 March 1867 Saturday, 30 March 1867 March - April 1867 Sunday, 31 March 1867 fine weather blue pill Monday, 1 April 1867 H. began quinine Eliz came well E.D. blue pill me Tuesday, 2 April 1867

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31. — Q. A. St Journey 11 - Tuesday, 26 February 1884 £5 to H E. L – for Miss Walker Wednesday, 27 February 1884 came across to Ellen — she v. unwell - February - March 1884 Thursday, 28 February 1884 maid 2/6 c by Dickson cab. 16/ - 3 / 6 [2 lines crossed] Friday, 29 February 1884 Came to 31 K. Sq Mrs Lyell Cicely Saturday, 1 March 1884 p.m. party March 1884 Sunday, 2 March 1884 Monday, 3 March 1884 Mrs Haliburton came Tuesday, 4 March 1884 came to Cam - Wednesday, 5 March 1884 Knocked up blue

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Forrest February 1895 Sunday, 10 February 1895 7.26 5.4 3° wr H E L. Monday, 11 February 1895 23° 34° wr H E L Dr Allbutt Tuesday, 12 February 1895 12° wr H E L saw G – Dinner party Fosters Mr Sidgwick c blue pill Wednesday, 13 February 1895 wr Mrs Lister fine - Thursday, 14 February 1895 wr L. L Jace to Girling W. came Friday, 15 February 1895 30 in day wr Hen – Saturday, 16 February 1895 25° 35° in day Alice BC. came - February 1895 Sunday, 17 February 1895 7.12 5.17 38° saw Meggy Ralph Monday

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[Printed title] Harwood's Diamond Diary with An Almanack for 1864 Aug. owe for Haydns Symph- no. 11. 5/. Genius genius 12 – 9 – 1 — 1 [crossed] 2 — 1 9 January 1864 31 — began wrist compress Friday, 1 January 1864 acid sickness 8- good day billiards [doodle] Saturday, 2 January 1864 began quinine much discomf till 1. several times sick Eliz came blue pill good night acid sick January 1864 Sunday, 3 January 1864 acid sick 11 – Do — 6 Do — 8 - 9 twice Monday, 4 January 1864 slight acid 8. began

CUL-DAR242    Note:    1824--1896   Emma Darwin's diary   Text

March 1885 Sunday, 29 March 1885 Mar 29 Monday, 30 March 1885 30 !!! Drove to Springf. out 2ce Tuesday, 31 March 1885 31 Beaut day !! April Wednesday, 1 April 1885 Children went to Abinger April 1885 Thursday, 2 April 1885 April 2 Hen R came Friday, 3 April 1885 3 Saturday, 4 April 1885 4 Protheros dined April 1885 Sunday, 5 April 1885 April 5 well Monday, 6 April 1885 6 tired Tuesday, 7 April 1885 7 quite well 9 M. Shaen came Wednesday, 8 April 1885 8 began to feel unwell M. Shaen went blue pill

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. 3 more in night last dose of brandy at 9 p.m. Tuesday, 29 December 1863 v. g. 9.30 2 or 3. blue pill Wednesday, 30 December 1863 v. good day 8. slightly uncomf but not sick sick once in mg. good night left off pepsine Thursday, 31 December 1863 8 acid sickness 8 slightly b [crossed] acid uncomf much of day but not sick [page break] [1864

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Thompson did not see her - Friday, 22 August 1890 Leo Bee came Saturday, 23 August 1890 Furious rain in mg. poorly – G. came blue pill August 1890 Sunday, 24 August 1890 party from Schapel – Showers some sun Monday, 25 August 1890 ! went to Terrace bad night Tuesday, 26 August 1890 ! mg. rain all evg. p.m G. v. poorly Wednesday, 27 August 1890 H. E. L. to L. H. P Maud came rain thunder Leo Bee sailed to N.Y. Thursday, 28 August 1890 !! Bessy back from Eastbourne Friday, 29 August 1890 G. Maud

A916    Beagle Library:     Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable.   Text

forehead; it is plaited into one tail, which hangs down the back. Both sexes are dressed in coarse blue cloth of the country, the men wearing jackets and large loose breeches, open at the knees, which reach however nearly as low as the ankles. The women have short-sleeved shifts of blue cloth, open at the bosom, and heavy quilted blue petticoats, fulled all round, and so long that you cannot see their feet. Both men and women place a coloured worsted girdle round the waist, which they esteem a great

A732.03    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 3.   Text

or stuff jacket with a red collar, blue trowsers, and a cap; but without shoes or stockings. The lower classes of females wore full petticoats, and a chemise, with a long blue and white shawl: their hair is platted in long slender tresses, and they have no other covering on their heads. Some indians from the interior had a kind of short shirt, not reaching down to their waists, breeches, and sandals of raw hide, with a hat, the crown of which is about three inches high, and the skirts more

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

waistcoat, and sometimes a jacket; a light poncho, and a straw hat, but they are without either shoes or stockings, except some of the old men who have been alcaldes, and who afterwards wear shoes adorned with large square silver buckles when they go to church or to Lima. The alcaldes also usually wear a long blue Spanish cloak. The dress of the females is a blue flannel petticoat, plaited in folds about half an inch broad, a white shirt, and a piece of flannel, red, green, or yellow, about

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

these kind of ornaments to the amount of twenty or thirty thousand dollars. The dress of the mestisos is composed of a jacket and small-clothes, the bottom of the drawers appearing below the knees; no stockings, and only sometimes shoes; a long Spanish cloak of blue cloth, manufactured in the country, and a black hat; these are called llapangos, a Quichua word signifying barefooted. The females often wear a large hoop, and a gaudy petticoat made of English flannel, red, pink, yellow, or pale

A916    Beagle Library:     Proctor, Robert. 1825. Narrative of a journey across the Cordillera of the Andes. London: A. Constable.   Text

ment of the Rio de la Plata, into a hall very handsomely ornamented. At the upper end of the room the Buenos Ayres flag of white and light blue was waving, supported by the Peruvian, Colombian, and Chilian standards. The ornaments of the room were of white and blue, and the greater part of the visitors wore favours of the same colour. The company was very splendidly apparelled, particularly the military; and there was not perhaps a single country of America, and perhaps I might say even of

A332.1    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image

of considerable size, and requires great care in the eradication, for if any portion is left, a sore is produced. Tobacco water is one of the best applications. These are the chief plagues of the country, and it must be confessed lay under contribution the patience and good temper of the European. To turn the subject from these disgusting insects to something more agreeable, it may be stated that some of the most beautiful butterflies are natives of this country. The large deep blue butterfly

A332.1    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image

solitary umb is among the few indigenous trees of the country, and its limit is closely confined to the vicinity of the city. Several species of cactus, the cardon or thistle with blue flowers, and a few more, comprehend the chief part of the native vegetable [page] 15

A332.1    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image

not for the snow-water which runs from the Cordillera, the country would be entirely parched op. The rainy season is during the winter, when the other source is frozen up. It lasts for three months, with occasional frosts, and, at times, a little snow. The mornings are extremely bright, and the mountains, devoid of mist, are relieved by a deep blue sky. Towards five o'clock in the afternoon, the atmosphere becomes overcast, and it is difficult to persuade oneself that a storm is not on the

A332.1    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image

tained more specimens of a yellow and of a blue decomposing felspar and greenstone. Keeping round some more faldas we descended into valley and crossed a deep and rapid stream. The weather had now become dark and lowering, and the snow increased fast: at length, about seven o'clock, we came to some caves formed of overhanging rocks, and turning the mules loose to pick up as much as the snow would permit, we made a fire by means of some moss which grows under the fragosa, and lighted a fire of

A332.2    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image

vantage in the usual walking-dress, the saya and manto. The former is composed of an elastic silk petticoat, like a stocking, which is drawn over the head down to the ancles, and then fastened round the waist with a buckle; this is the saya. It is usually worn of a deep blue, black, or cinnamon colour. Its elasticity makes it set perfectly tight, showing the contour of the person; and some ladies wear it so contracted at the ancles that they can scarcely step over the little streams which run

A332.2    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image

and the sky of that intense blue colour which it had borne for the last three days. Our track lay by the river of las Cuevas, a small stream, which rises near the Cumbre. We afterwards reached the Inca's bridge, naturally formed of calcareous matter, with long stalactites hanging down from the arch, which was scarcely twenty feet over. I had previously heard of this bridge, and fancied that it passed over an immense torrent, and connected two mountains together, and that without it the pass

A332.2    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image

until that time. We seldom met with any persons on the track, excepting muleteers. This morning, however, we fell in which a black, by himself, who had erysipelas in his legs; and on conversing with him, I was amused with what he declared was a sovereign remedy for the disorder; nothing but applying the warm blood of a black fowl to the affected part a regular Greek sacrifice to Esculapius. He added, that it must be a black fowl, which was different from any other, in having blue bones and warmer

A332.2    Beagle Library:     Caldcleugh, Alexander. 1825. Travels in South America, during the years 1819 - 20 - 21: containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile. 2 vols. London: John Murray. vol. 2.   Text   Image

gummy fell, and I apprehend the juice can only act mechanically. After packing the numerous specimens I obtained in banana leaves, we set off on our return to Villa Rica. The road was in places covered with pieces of pale blue cyanite; and the scales of the ferro-micaceous slate glistened on every side like the finest brilliants. In this rock we discovered some hematitic iron. 26th September. I went in search this morning of some specimens of oxide of calamine, which I found encrusting the

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

a sure sign that he is at peace with the Spaniards, though other tribes may be at war with them. I had several opportunities at Arauco of seeing the indians employed in weaving the fine ponchos, some of which, I learnt, were worth from a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars. The wool is first washed and picked or combed, for they have no idea of carding. It is then spun with the spindle, as already described, and afterwards dyed the necessary colours, such as blue, green, yellow, red, c, and

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

if he refused, he was to tie a knot on the blue and red joined together: so that according to the route determined on by Lepitrarn he would be able to discover on the return of his chasqui, or herald, how many of his friends would join him; and if any dissented, he would know who it was, by the place where the knot uniting the two threads was tied. Thus it is very probable, that the Toquis of Araucania preserve their records by means of the quipus, instead of relying on oral tradition. The

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

mean; but it is said to have been a magnificent building before it was destroyed by an earth-, quake on the 20th October, 1C87. Its principal entrance is on the west side, in a narrow street' leading to the bridge from the plasa; to the right of the entrance is the guard-room, where a company of infantry, a captain, lieutenant, and ensign are stationed: to the left there are four flights of steps leading to the sala de los Vireys, at the door of which is a guard of halberdiers, dressed in blue

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

of being initiated into the ceremonies of their future professions. Their habit is an almond coloured gown, very wide at the bottom, and buttoned round the neck; when spread open its form is completely circular, having a hole with a collar in the centre; this is called the opa. A piece of pale blue cloth, about eight inches broad, is passed over one shoulder, then folded on the breast, and the end thrown across the opposite shoulder, the two ends hanging down behind the bottom of the opa. On

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

guishing colour of the faculty, blue and white for divinity, red for canons, green for jurisprudence or law, and yellow for medicine. The young doctor takes his place on his proper bench, and is complimented by the senior professors of the faculty; when the whole company adjourns to a splendid collation prepared by the new brother of the bonnet and fringe. This university, now under the title of San Marcos, was founded in 1549 by a bull of Pius V. with the same privileges as those enjoyed by

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

round the bottom with lace, fringe, spangles, pearls, artificial flowers, or whatever may be considered fashionable. Among ladies of the higher prder the saya is of different colours purple, pale blue, lead colour, or striped. The manto is a hood of thin black silk, drawn round the [page] 30

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

worst mixed breed in existence: he is cruel, revengeful, and unforgiving; very ugly, as if his soul were expressed in his features; lazy, stupid, and provoking. He is low in stature, and like the indian has little or no beard, but very harsh black hair, which is inclined to curl. The quarteron and quinteron are often hand-some, have good figures, a fair complexion, with blue eyes and light coloured hair; they are mild and obliging, but have not the intrepidity nor lively imagination of the

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

. Thick broad cloths, in imitation of the Spanish San Fernando cloth, are best for the interior; and thin fine cloth, in imitation of the French sedan cloth, is most suitable for Lima. The Manchester broad flannels, either twilled or plain, with a long nap, dark and light blue, [page] 35

A732.01    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co.   Text

three or four nights successively, without any apparent inconvenience, and they seldom or never sleep during the day. Both males and females adhere to one kind of dress, which varies little either in towns or villages. The men of Huacho wear long blue woollen trowsers, [page] 39

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

The arms of the city are a shield, azure, bearing a griffin; in the centre two columns, one blue, the other white, over water, in which there is a crown, Or, crossed by two bars, Argent, underneath which is the letter K. Truxillo suffered very much from earthquakes on the 14th of February, 1619 the 6th of January, 1625 the 20th of October, 1759 and the 2nd of September, 1759. The last shock was very violent, and some of the valleys near the coast, which, before it happened, produced the most

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

welcome visitors than those whom I have now the honour to address; allow me to say, you are indeed welcome; when, without waiting a reply, he remounted his steed, and we trotted along to his rancho. This kind old gentleman was dressed in a coat, waistcoat and breeches of blue velveteen; the coat being lined with Catalonian chintz, full of large red flowers on a white ground; the huge buttons on his coat and waistcoat were of silver; he had on a pair of high military boots, and had a small

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

about twenty thousand souls; the inhabitants are composed of all the different classes which are found in the various towns of South America, but there is an excess of mulattos. A phenomenon presents itself here which greatly surprises all foreigners; the complexion of some of the white natives is extremely delicate, the lily and the rose are blended as enchantingly as on the cheek of any European beauty, accompanied also with blue eyes and light coloured hair; yet the climate is extremely hot

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

plat the hair of their children, dragging it back from the forehead and temples in very small plats, for the purpose of enlarging that feature. The common dress of the male Spaniards and creoles is similar to ours, with the addition of a long red, white, or blue cloak. Their [page] 30

A732.02    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2.   Text

drawers, reaching from the waist to about the middle of the thighs, and is generally white; that of the women consists of a piece of blue cotton cloth wrapped round the waist, reaching down to the knees; but a profusion of glass beads adorn their necks, arms, wrists, and ankles. Both men and wo VOL. II 2 Z [page] 35

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slip of sheet silver; round their necks, the small part of their arms, and below their knees, they wear other slips of silver, about an inch broad, and to the lower edge a great number of small silver drops hang loose, forming altogether a very pleasing appearance. The women wear a piece of flannel or cotton cloth, wrapped round the waist, and reaching below the knees, with a profusion of beads round their necks, wrists, and ankles: white and pale blue glass beads are held in great estimation

A732.03    Beagle Library:     Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 3.   Text

, twelve leagues from Arica, where they arrived on the fifteenth, and without any opposition took possession of the town; they were here joined by two companies of infantry, who deserted the cause of the king. Lord Cochrane ordered that these should form the base of a new regiment, to be called the first independents of Tacna, and as the particular flag for the troops of Peru was not determined on at head quarters, his lordship presented them with one having a sun in the centre on a blue field

A892    Beagle Library:     Weddell, James. 1825. A voyage towards the South Pole performed in the years 1822-24. Containing an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-fourth degree of latitude: and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green.   Text

birds of the blue peterel kind. NOT A PARTICLE OF ICE OF ANY DESCRIPTION WAS TO BE SEEN. The evening was mild and serene, and had it not been for the reflection that probably we should have obstacles to contend with in our passage northward, through the ice, our situation might have been envied. The wind was light and easterly during the night, and we carried all sail. The sun's amplitude in the morning of the 19th when the ship's head was S. by E. gave variation 15 10 east. The weather being

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pigeons; the grey peterel, called by sailors the nelly; snowbirds; and, on the Coast, I have seen blue peterels. Several pieces of wreck have been seen on the western islands, and apparently of the scantling of a 74 gun ship, which makes it too probable that these are the remains of a Spanish ship of war of that rate, which has been missing since the year 1818, when she was on her passage to Lima. On a beach in the principal island, which I named Smith's Island, in honor of the discoverer, were

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negroes. The cavalry were chiefly Spaniards, their dress long yellow coats faced with blue. Considerable numbers of people were collected in [page] 35

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high water by the shore. OBSERVATIONS ON THE WINDS AND WEATHER. The heaviest and most lasting gale that blows in the neighbourhood of Cape Horn, is from south, occasionally shifting a point or two each way. This gale I have frequently known to come on in a squall, and continue in the tempestuous months to blow from thirty-five to forty hours together. The southern horizon, filled, with rising clouds, heavy and white in a blue sky, is a sure indication of a lasting gale, with snow squalls. A

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shipping on the blue Pacific through this natural perspective seems nearer than it actually is; beyond them the Island of San Lorenzo closes the prospect. We passed through the gate into a short wide street, commenced by San Martin, but never completed; and it is a matter of great regret, that there is no good street leading from the gate directly into the heart of the city. I had letters of introduction to Mr. John Parish Robertson, and I called upon him first. He very kindly invited me to

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comfortably, and carrying my passport to the governor, begged that I might have two good horses for myself and servant immediately. I now discovered that the horses of the state were those of the poor people, who owned some miserable beasts not worth carrying off by the Granaderos a Cavallo: He sent for the Alcalde, an Indian without shoes or stockings, but nevertheless, being in office, a formal dignified personage (with a large hat of blue and white reed, which he thought extremely fine, and