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dc.contributor.authorJ. P. Robertsones
dc.contributor.authorW. P. Robertsones
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-03T16:20:36Zes
dc.date.available2024-06-03T16:20:36Zes
dc.date.issued1843es
dc.identifier.urihttps://anaforas.fic.edu.uy/jspui/handle/123456789/86648es
dc.description.tableofcontentsCONTENTS OP THE FIRST VOLUME. LETTER I. THE AUTHORS TO THEIR READERS. Introductory . . . . . . . Page 1 LETTER II. THE AUTHORS TO THEIR READERS. More minutely Introductory . . . . . . 7 LETTER III. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Landing at Corrientes—Its Traffic—Misery—Artigas’s Tactics—Personal insecurity—A New Acquaintance—Don Pedro Campbell and his Page—An Irish Gaucho—A Harangue—The Gaucho and the Governor—Campbell's History—Reflections . ... . , 22 LETTER IV. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. The Piragua—Sailing into the confluence of the Rivers Paraguay and Parana—Arrival at Corrientes, and a meeting there—Origin of the name of Corrientes—An attack by Artigúenos gallantly repulsed by an Englishman . 41 LETTER V. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Corrientes Hucksters—And a harangue about them—South American Hospitality—A Corrientes Levee 51 LETTER VI. J. p. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. More of the Irish Gaucho, Don Pedro Campbell—His proposals and enterprising character—His squire, Don Edwardo —The two are dispatched to re-organize the “ Camp,” or Country—Prospect of their Success . • • 59 // LETTER VII. THE AUTHORS TO GENERAL MILLER. Page Origin of Corrientes, and of its Inhabitants—Their high pretensions to descent from the best Spanish Nobility—Reflections—Passion Week—Penitentes—Dofia Florinda, the Corrientes Maniac 68 LETTER VIII. J. F. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Dofia Florinda’s person, character, and habits—The cause and result of her aberrations—Her exulting account of the Penitentes, contrasted with that of Don Ysidoro—The real state of the Case . • . . • • • • 84 LETTER IX. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. The population of Corrientes—Classes of Inhabitants-—Productions—The learned Prior and Dinners in the Refectory— Don Ysidoro Martinez y Cires—Don Agustín Saenz and his Polacca—Smuggling—The way of endowing Brides 95 LETTER X. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Fresh Trip to Buenos Ayres—Don Poncho Calafate, alias the Zapo—His Habits and Manner of Life—A Contrast to the Zopo—George- Washington Tuckerman, Esq.—Female Quacks—More of Mr. Tuckerman—The passage with him in the Skiff—He is in lovs—Family Secrets—A Hurricane on the Paraná—Arrival at Buenos Ayres 111 LETTER XI. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. The port of Goya—Don Pedro Quesndy—Artiguefio Freebooters—More of Don Pedro ..... 140 LETTER XII. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Departure from Corrientes for Goya—Road to Goya—Don Ponciano Delgado, the Indian Schoolmaster—First interview with Don Pedro Quesndy—His Hospitality—Goya Society . . • • . . » . 157//LETTER XIII. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Mode of doing Business in Comentes—Habilitaciones, or Credits—Don Pedro Campbell among the Estancieros, or Country Gentlemen—Among the Gauchos in the Camp— Mercantile Revolution—Don Pedro Marote—Corrientes Caravans . ... . . . . . Page 174 LETTER XIV. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. More of the South American Caravan—It sets out—Crossing a River—The Encampment—The Repose . 187 LETTER XV. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Journey from Buenos Ayres to Goya with George Washington Tuckerman and Philip Parkin, Esquires . . . 199 LETTER XVI. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Commencement of active Operations—Mosquito Sport and Slaughter—Don Pedro Quesnéy once more on the Boards —An Arrival at Goya—The Supper—A Scene of some Excitement—The Alarm—Don Felipe Parkin—A Disturbance—The Alarm unriddled and accounted for—G. W. Tuckerman’s courage fails him . . . . 205 LETTER XVII. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER* Journey from Goya to Corrientes—Description of a Post-House —and of a Night Scene there—The Guitarrero—The Bedroom—The Expulsion—The Yankee and John Bull—Preparations for a winding up ..... 227 LETTER XVIU. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Departure from Don Pedro’s mansion—He proves something like a Rogue—Shuffles and prevaricates, but assumes an air of Honesty. . . 240, // LETTER XIX. W. F. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Page My Cottage in Goya—Carpets there—Operations—Wild Cattle—Slaughter of wild Horses—A Tiger and a Bull— Collecting of Hides . 247 LETTER XX. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Practical Philosophy, if not deep—The Courier Leyva . 265 LETTER XXI. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Peter Campbell's hot^Temper—His Quarrel with George Washington Tuckerman, Esq.—His testy Appeal—We are suspected of issuing false Coin—Evidence adduced to the Contrary—Campbell's Energy ..... 275 LETTER XXII. W. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. The Family of Mr. Postlethwaite—Their arrival at Goya—The Beauty of the new Comers—Don Pedro's Extacy—George Washington Tuckerman, Esq., acts the Physician—His Apostrophe—The Love Affair—Don Jorge pines—He is in Extacy—Weeps—And seeks for the “ Dorado" . 280 LETTER XXIII. J. P. R. TO GENERAL MILLER. Don Agustín Saenz, Captain of the Polacca—His Dainties— An Arrival—The Family of the Postlethwaitcs—Change in Domestic Habits—Don Ysidoro and Mr. Postlethwaite —Final Departure from Corrientes «... 310es
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dc.publisherJohn Murray, Albemarle Streetes
dc.titleLetters On South America Comprising Travels On The Banks of The Paraná and Rio de la Plata, Vol. IIes
dc.typeLibroes
dc.provenanceBiblioteca Pablo Blanco Acevedo, Casa de Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Museo Histórico Nacionales
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