Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.


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CHILEAN FARMER

CHILEAN FARMER.

Engraved for Stevenson's Narrative of South America.


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A

HISTORICAL

AND

DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE

OF

TWENTY YEARS' RESIDENCE

IN

SOUTH AMERICA,

IN THREE VOLUMES;

CONTAINING TRAVELS IN ARAUCO, CHILE, PERU, AND COLOMBIA;
WITH AN ACCOUNT OF
THE REVOLUTION, ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND RESULTS.

 


 

BY W. B. STEVENSON,

FORMERLY PRIVATE SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT AND CAPTAIN GENERAL OF QUITO,
COLONEL, AND GOVERNOR OF ESMERALDAS, CAPTAIN DE FRAGATA, AND LATE
SECRETARY TO THE VICE ADMIRAL OF CHILE,—HIS EXCELLENCY
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD COCHRANE, &c.

 


VOL. III.


LONDON:
HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO.
CONSTABLE & Co. AND OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH.
MDCCCXXV.


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CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

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Chap. I.—First Revolutionary Symptoms in South America....Moralesand Quiroga....Character of Morales....Of Quiroga....Discovery made by Captain Salinas totwo Friars....Their Report to the Government....Imprisonment of Morales, Quiroga, Salinas, and Riofrio....Characterof Salinas....Of Dr. Riofrio....Liberation of the Prisoners....Junto formed at Quito....Adviceof to the President, Count Ruis....Manner in which the Revolution was conducted....NewOath....Marquis of Selva Alegre....Character of....Dissensions in the New Government....Count Ruisreinstated....Arrival of Troops from Lima and SantaFé....Imprisonment of the Insurgents....Trial of....Characterof the Count Ruis....Of the Oidor Don Felipe Fuertes Amar....Of the Fiscal Arrechaga....OfColonel Arredonda....Proceso sent to Santa Fé1
 
Chap. II.—Second Revolution at Quito....Massacre of thePrisoners....General Meeting held....Spanish Troops leave Quito....Revolution at Santa Fé....Arrival ofDon Carlos Montufar at Quito....Arredonda invades Quito....Arrives at Huaranda....Flies from....Montufarmarches towards Cuenca....Desists from attacking the City....Returns to Quito....My Appointmentto Esmeraldas....Capture and Escape....General Montes enters Quito....Death of Montufar....Quitotaken by General Sucre26
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Chap. III.—State of Lima in 1811....Constitution proclaimed....SomeEffects of....Wishes of the Inhabitants of Lima....Manifest of Venezuela45<
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