By Vicente Perez Rosales
Instances passed by is a set of short memoirs via Vincente P?rez Rosales within which he files his assorted adventures in his local Chile, Argentina, France, Germany, and the Californian Gold Rush. half social and cultural historical past and half statement, this version is edited with an creation and chronology of Rosales' existence by way of Professor Brian Loveman and translated by means of John H.R. Polt.
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At this point the English ships, fearing that the coveted quarry would escape them, attacked her right in the harbor. The wind failed the Essex on her second tack, leaving her in so defenseless a position that we thought she had run aground; and right there, despite the shots fired from our fortresses to keep the English from continuing in their act of aggression within our very waters, the Essex was demolished and vanquished. That was the first practical lesson in international law that civilized England impressed on my memory, for she never made even the slightest amends to the friend into whose home she had trespassed.
How much time, how many lives, were wasted then simply traveling! We must not, therefore, look only at their political institutions to explain the backwardness in which some nations live. The forced isolation in which the children of one and the same country find themselves in their homes, the lack of constant and easy communication among them, contribute, along with defective institutions, to the lamentable backwardness of commerce, of industry, and of civilization itself. Roads and the elimination of distance make man more sociable, prolong his useful life; and with the experience thus acquired, his condition improves in every way.
Wines and chicanery. — How to make use of sandy terrain. — A lucky escape. — Tenerife. — Tropical seas. — South winds. — Effects of a lack of drinking water at sea. — Doubling and redoubling Cape Horn. — The Falkland Islands. — Cast your bread upon the waters. — An execution in Curicó. — The price of traveling without a passport. — Natural riches between San Carlos and Famatina. — Mummies. — Chilecito de Famatina. — Cattle prices. — Tobacco and tobacco smuggling. — Erroneous view of the Andes as a single chain of mountains.