Journal of a Residence and Travels in Colombia During the Years 1823 and 1824, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1825 |
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Página 289 - ... withdraw ; and the French captain left Caraccas privately, about eight o'clock that night, escorted by a detachment of soldiers, and so saved his life ; for about ten o'clock his person was demanded of the governor by the populace, and when they learned that he was gone, three hundred men followed him, to put him to death. " Though coldly received by the governor, I was surrounded by all the respectable inhabitants of the city, and hailed as their deliverer. The news which I gave them from Cadiz...
Página 38 - Never was pity displayed in a more affecting manner; never had it been seen more ingenuously active than in the efforts employed to save the miserable victims, whose groans reached the ear. Implements for digging and clearing away the ruins were entirely wanting ; and the people were obliged to use their bare hands to disinter the living. The wounded, as well as the sick...
Página 34 - The air was calm, and the sky unclouded. It was Holy Thursday, and a great part of the population was assembled in the churches. Nothing seemed to presage the calamities of the day. At seven minutes after four in the afternoon, the first shock was felt ; it was sufficiently powerful to make the bells of the churches toll ; it lasted five or six seconds, during which time the ground was in a continual undulating movement, and seemed to heave up like a boiling liquid. The danger was thought to be past,...
Página 417 - Lord Cochrane, with part of his squadron, anchored in the outer Roads of Callao, the sea-port of Lima. The inner harbour was guarded by an extensive system of batteries, admirably constructed, and bearing the general name of the Castle of Callao. The merchant ships, as...
Página 508 - Panama; — bounded on the north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by...
Página 445 - ... moment when his fellow-countrymen, who were wearied with the oppressions of the Spanish government, had determined to unfurl the standard of independence. The talents, rank, and acquirements of Bolivar pointed him out as the worthiest and best qualified among them to be placed at the helm ; but he disapproved of the system adopted by the Congress of Venezuela, and refused to join Don Lopez Mendez in his mission to England, which was connected with the interests of the new government. Bolivar...
Página 35 - ... diameter, left a mass of ruins scarcely exceeding five or six feet in elevation. The sinking of the ruins has been so considerable, that there now scarcely remain any vestiges of pillars or columns. The barracks, called El...
Página 39 - Beds, linen to dress the wounds, instruments of surgery, medicines, and objects of the most urgent necessity, were buried under the ruins. Every thing, even food, was wanting during the first days. Water became alike scarce in the interior of the city. The commotion had rent the pipes of the fountains; the falling in of the earth had choaked up the springs that supplied them ; and it became necessary, in order to have water, to go down to the river Guayra, which was considerably swelled; and then...
Página 39 - It being impossible to inter so many thousand corpses, half-buried under the ruins, commissaries were appointed to burn the bodies : and for this purpose funeral piles were erected between the heaps of ruins. This ceremony lasted several days. Amid so many public calamities, the people devoted themselves to those religious duties, which they thought were the most fitted to appease the wrath of heaven. Some, assembling in processions, sung funeral hymns; others, in a state of distraction, confessed...
Página 42 - It appears, that it was on a line running ENE and WSW from La Guayra and Caraccas to the lofty mountains of Niquitao and Merida, that the violence of the earthquake was principally directed. It was felt in the kingdom of New Grenada, from the branches of the high Sierra de Santa Martha,* as far as Bogota and Honda, on the banks of the Magdalena, one hundred and eighty leagues from Caraccas.