South America and the Pacific: Comprising a Journey Across the Pampas and the Andes, from Buenos Ayres to Valparaiso, Lima, and Panama; with Remarks Upon the Isthmus, Band 1H. Colburn, 1838 |
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Seite 95 - Io mi volsi a man destra e posi mente AH' altro polo, e vidi quattro stelle Non viste mai fuor ch
Seite 306 - Islands, lying within the said track, notwithstanding their having been first discovered and visited by British navigators, have never yet been so sufficiently surveyed, as that an accurate judgment may be formed of their coasts and...
Seite 306 - ... and product, his Majesty taking the premises into consideration, and conceiving no conjuncture so proper for an enterprise of this nature as a time of profound peace, which his kingdoms at present happily enjoy, has thought fit that it should now be undertaken.
Seite 309 - ... emblems of sovereignty again reared, and possession resumed by a military and naval force, Great Britain voluntarily abandoned these distant dominions, taking every possible precaution, when she did so, to give evidence to the world that though she abandoned she did not relinquish them.
Seite 311 - Majesty's rights of sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. "These rights, founded upon the original discovery and subsequent occupation of the said islands, acquired an additional sanction from the restoration, by His Catholic Majesty, of the British settlement, in the year 1771, which, in the preceding year, had been attacked and occupied by a Spanish force, and which act of violence had led to much angry discussion between the Governments of the two countries.
Seite 289 - Government wished to know distinctly from this Government, whether it claimed on its part, any right or authority to detain or capture, or in any way to molest, interrupt or impede the vessels or the citizens of the United States of America, while engaged in fishing in the waters or on the shores of the Falkland Islands and the other places included in the decree of June loth 1829.
Seite 311 - Countries. The withdrawal of His Majesty's Forces from these Islands, in the year 1774, cannot be considered as invalidating His Majesty's just rights. That measure took place in pursuance of a system of retrenchment, adopted at that time by His Britannic Majesty's Government; but the marks and signals of possession and property were left upon the Islands: when the Governor took his departure, the British Flag remained flying, and all those formalities were observed which indicated the rights of...
Seite 289 - The undersigned Minister of Grace and Justice, charged provisionally with the Department of Foreign Relations of the Argentine Republic, has the honour to address the Charge d' Affaires ad interim of his Britannic majesty in this city, to acquaint him, that the government has just learned that the commander of his Britannic majesty's sloop-of-war Clio has taken possession of the Island of La Soledad...
Seite 286 - I have nowhere seen an assemblage of men and women whose average height and apparent bulk equalled that of the Patagonians. Tall and athletic as are many of the South Sea islanders, there are also many among their number who are slight, and of lower stature. " The Patagonians seem to be high-shouldered, owing, perhaps, to their habit of folding their arms (across the chest} in...