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Much other treasure, which proved very serviceable to the impoverished Chilian exchequer, was captured by the little fleet during a two months' cruise about the coast of Peru, both north and south of Callao. Everywhere, too, the Spanish cause was weakened, and the natives were encouraged to share in the great work of South American rebellion against a tyranny of three centuries' duration.
Sir, that which I suffered from anxiety of mind whilst in the Chilian service, I will never again endure for any consideration.
But Chilian entered at that instant. "She is going upstairs for a clean apron," he said. "I took her off for a walk." "She might have asked whether she could go or not," snapped Elizabeth. "She's the most lawless thing!" "It was my place. Don't blame the child!" "Well, supper's ready." She didn't have her apron on quite straight and her hair was a little frowsy.
The folly of the greater number of the commissioners and shareholders amounted to infatuation; a thousand pounds per annum given in some cases to entertain the Chilian authorities; libraries of well-bound geological books; miners brought out for particular metals, as tin, which are not found in Chile; contracts to supply the miners with milk, in parts where there are no cows; machinery, where it could not possibly be used; and a hundred similar arrangements, bore witness to our absurdity, and to this day afford amusement to the natives.
Captain Latorre therefore had them all disarmed and bound securely, after which he went up on to the roof of the building and hauled down the Bolivian flag, hoisting the Chilian ensign in its place. He then signalled to Admiral Williams: "Custom House taken, with loss of nineteen killed and twenty-three wounded." Antofagasta was in the hands of the Chilians!
She liked to make it revolve on its axis, and in imagination she crossed the oceans, and seas, and capes, and found her father again. The stage had just come in. They paused on the corner, waiting for Cousin Chilian. Some one was with him yes, it was Cousin Giles Leverett. "Well, little woman," he began, "so I find you out here meandering round, and so much improved that I hardly know you.
She allowed him to come a little nearer, to hold her hand, to take nameless small freedoms, and he was always delicate. Would he be satisfied without all she could not help withholding? Would it be right to give him a half love? But then how could she help loving Cousin Chilian, who had been so tender to her in childhood?
At 3 p.m. we reached Sandy Point, the only civilised place in the Straits. It is a Chilian settlement, and a large convict establishment has been formed here by the Government. Almost before we had dropped our anchor, the harbour-master came on board, closely followed by the officers of the two Chilian men-of-war lying in the harbour.
He would, of course, take care not to overtake the Chilian, let the poor man get away if he could, by all means, but he thought that if he could himself lead the pursuit, so to speak, he might be able gradually to out-distance the rest of the soldiers, and thus finally get clear away by allowing the Peruvians to imagine that he was still keeping up the pursuit.
"I dread something terrible, but I have very little apprehension for the fate of the people on board the ship," he answered, in a low tone. "In my opinion, the pirates will find that they have caught a tartar. Mark me yonder craft is no merchantman, but a ship of war, either American or English, or perhaps Chilian. I should not be surprised to find that she is on the watch for our friends here.
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