British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ost graphic. Nodoubt these good fellows of tried gallantry let them-selves go to their hearts content, and, each being pro-foundly satisfied with the Veritas (or veritate for theclassic-minded) in vino that he found in the other, thebudding friendship between the Chileans and Britishmust have attained its intimate majority then and undoubtedly was one of the first of those innum-erable Chileno gatherings upon which the Andes frowne
British exploits in South America; a history of British activities in exploration, military adventure, diplomacy, science, and trade, in Latin American . ost graphic. Nodoubt these good fellows of tried gallantry let them-selves go to their hearts content, and, each being pro-foundly satisfied with the Veritas (or veritate for theclassic-minded) in vino that he found in the other, thebudding friendship between the Chileans and Britishmust have attained its intimate majority then and undoubtedly was one of the first of those innum-erable Chileno gatherings upon which the Andes frownedon from above, and the blue Pacific smiled at from be-low! The officers of the two British warships Andromacheand Blossom, just then in Valparaiso Bay, lost no timein associating themselves with these festivities. Thefirst regular race course on the Pacific coast was im-provised ; a level space in the neighborhood of the townwas cleared of its cactus and scrub, and then followedcricket matches, and the bang of the leather ball againstthose queerly shaped old bats of the early nineteenthcentury. But let the contemporary chronicler from whose pages. :?%ji. j^K* ?¥. 4r »?o>
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