Narrative of a Visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich Islands, During the Years 1821 and 1822: With Miscellaneous Remarks on the Past and Present State, and Political Prospects of Those Countries |
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Page 434 - His simple yet energetic manner added weight to his opinions, and proved that he spoke, from personal conviction, the sincere and unpremeditated language of the heart. " The chief himself stood in the background, a little apart from the rest, leaning upon the shoulder of an attendant. A gleam of light suddenly fell upon his countenance, and disclosed features on which wonder, anxiety, and seriousness were imprinted in the strongest characters. He wore no other dress than the maro round the waist...
Page 433 - The door of his hut was half open, and I was about to enter unceremoniously, when a scene, too striking ever to be forgotten, and which would require the hand of a master painter to do it justice, suddenly arrested my whole attention. " About a dozen natives, of both sexes, were seated in a circle, on the matted floor of the apartment, and in the midst of them sat John Honoree, the Hawaiian catechist. All eyes were bent upon him ; and the variously expressive features of each individual marked the...
Page 464 - The Sandwich Island flag is composed of the English jack, and a number of stripes like those of the American flag, in allusion probably to the number of islands.
Page 233 - ... unanswerable reasons for not changing this custom. The sun scorches their faces, and they would be prevented from visiting the sick, and performing charitable actions without publicity. The freedom allowed by it, another traveller assures us, is almost unbounded. They live, in fact, when abroad, in a perpetual masquerade, nothing affording them more amusement than to deceive their acquaintance, by passing themselves off as strangers, or to watch their movements, and listen to their conversation,...
Page 184 - With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow ; If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise ; There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. Then grieve not, thou, to whom th...
Page 230 - ... which are formed, present altogether a motley and extraordinary appearance, well described by Mr. Mathison. " Priests, in rich sacerdotal vestments ; friars, of various orders, Franciscan, Benedictine, Dominican, and others, many of whose portly persons and ruddy countenances belie the austerity of their profession; men dressed up as nuns, with black veils and masks, selling little waxen images of the Virgin ; women of all classes, — some in shawls and hats, others with the showy saya (petticoat)...
Page 447 - ... obedience to the authority of the King, and acquiesced without hesitation in this important change. The morals, or temples, with their blood-stained altars, upon which human victims had been so often immolated to appease the supposed wrath of Heaven, were universally levelled with the ground. The images were committed to the flames; and so complete was the work of destruction, that, in the course of a few months, neither sacrifices nor religious observances of any sort were kept, or even thought...