FOOTNOTES:
[1] About £50,000.
[2] = £240,000.
[3] = £4500.
[4] A cruzado = nearly five shillings.
[5] Under £5.
[6] The boucan was a wooden instrument used by Brazilian cannibals for roasting their victims. Hence the word buccaneer.
[7] £1200.
[8] Vide Humboldt’s Researches.
[9] Frezier.
“And lo! deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell,
In hopes to merit heaven by making earth a hell.”
—Childe Harold.
[11] Hist. Novi Orbis, lib. III. c. 21.
[12] It is interesting to English readers to know that the high post of Captain-General of Chili was, in November 1787, confided to Don Ambrose Higgins, a native of Ireland, who was, two years later, appointed Field Marshal of the Royal Armies.
[13] A cruzado = nearly five shillings.
[14] Condamine.
[15] The following was told me by a lady now in her eighty-first year, as having been current in her youth:
“My first is an emblem of purity,
My second’s a thing of security;
My whole is a name, which if yours were the same,
You would blush to hand down to futurity.”
| 3 brigades artillery. | |
| 5th | —Brigadier-General Sir S. Achmuty. |
| 38th | |
| 87th | |
| 17th dragoons. | |
| 36th | —Brigadier-General Lumley |
| 88th | |
| 95th | —Brigadier-General Craufurd. |
| Light battalion | |
| 4 troops 6th dragoon guards. | |
| 9th light dragoons. | |
| 40th | —Colonel Mahon. |
| 45th | |
[17] The Italics are the author’s.
| Count Daborre went before the wind=> Count Datorre went before the wind {pg 31} |
| 1776.=> 1676. {pg 98} |
| Beckham, however, showed=> Beckman, however, showed {pg 102} |
| also to legislatiou=> also to legislation {pg 111} |
| Curaçoa=> Curaçao {pg 156} |
| Bogota, 1850=> Bogotá, 1850 {pg 158} |
| Don Antonia Gonzaga=> Don Antonio Gonzaga {pg 164} |
| new governor, Gomes Freyre de Andrada=> new governor, Gomes Freyre de Andrade {pg 188} |
| and of encourging them=> and of encouraging them {pg 231} |
| removal of Bishop Gardenas=> removal of Bishop Cárdenas {pg 247} |
| durch die Provinzeu von Rio=> durch die Provinzen von Rio {pg 270} |
| A well-sustained fusilade=> A well-sustained fusillade {pg 278} |
| up to there middle in water=> up to their middle in water {pg 287} |
| offensive and unusal demand=> offensive and unusual demand {pg 297} |
| estimated by Dean Fuñes=> estimated by Dean Funes {pg 210} |