CONTENTS. i x 



-VISIT THE COPPER MINES — MODES OF WORKING THEM— THEIR SITUATION — 

 TRANSPORTATION OF ORES— WAGES— TEMPERANCE REGULATIONS— LAKE ON THE 

 HIGH CORDILLERAS— COPPER ORES— RETURN TO SAN FELIPE— KINDNESS OF MR. 

 NEWMAN AND LADY-CELIDONO— QUILLOT A— RETURN TO VALPARAISO— EARTH- 

 QUAKES- PROTESTANT CHURCH — LIBERALITY OF PRIESTHOOD — OR ACION — COM- 

 MERCE — EXPORTS — IMPORTS — FOREIGN VESSELS — POPULATION— COLLEGES — CON- 

 GRESS — IMPROVEMENTS IN PROGRESS — REVENUE — NATIONAL DEBT — CLIMATE- 

 FRUITS— ADMINISTRATION— EXECUTIVE-SENATE— HOUSE OF DEPUTIES-MILITIA— 

 ARMY— NAVY-G. G. HOBSON, ESQ., U. S. CONSUL— LIEUTENANT CRAVEN— HIS GAL- 

 LANT CONDUCT— CAPTAIN ISAAC M'KEEVER— U. S. SHIP FALMOUTH-FLYING-FISH— 

 GALE-SEA-GULL LAST SEEN— HER LOSS-PASSED MIDSHIPMAN JAMES W. E. REID— 

 PASSED MIDSHIPMAN FREDERICK A. BACON— ADMINISTRATION OF GOVERNMENT 

 OF CHILI .. 177—208 



CHAPTER XL 



WANT OF CORRECT HISTORICAL RECORDS — O'HIGGINS DECLARED SUPREME DICTA- 

 TOR-RESIGNS IN 1623— COUNCIL OF STATE APPOINTED— GENERAL FREYRE LANDS 

 AT VALPARAISO— ARREST OF OHIGGINS— HIS RELEASE-GENERAL RAMON FREYRE 

 ASSUMES THE GOVERNMENT— RETIRES TO PRIVATE LIFE— ADMIRAL BLANCO PRE- 

 SIDENT—BLANCO RESIGNS-SUCCEEDED BY VICE-PRESIDENT— HIS RESIGNATION — 

 FREYRE AGAIN CHOSEN PRESIDENT— FREYRE RESIGNS— PRIETO BECOMES PRESI- 

 DENT — RESIGNS- PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE ACTS— ELECTION HELD — PRTETO 

 ELECTED — REFUSES TO SERVE — VICUNEA PRESIDENT OF SENATE — TROUBLES - 

 JUNTA APPOINTED — CIVIL WAR — ABANDONMENT OF THE CAPITAL — FREYRE 

 CALLED IN— JOINS THE PRESIDENTS PARTY— BATTLE OF LIRCAI, APRIL, 1830-DE- 

 FEAT OF FREYRE— HIS BANISHMENT TO PERU— NEW ELECTION— DON FRANCISCO 

 TAGLE RETURNED AS PRESIDENT— OVALLE AS VICE-PRESIDENT— BOTH RESIGN— 

 PRESIDENT OF SENATE AGAIN ACTS— NEW ELECTION— GENERAL PRIETO ELECTED, 

 JULY, 1S31— STATE OF THE COUNTRY— HIS ADMINISTRATION— DIEGO PORTA LES— 

 -SYSTEM OF REFORM — MILITIA SYSTEM — ESTABLISHES PUBLIC CREDIT — CIVIL 

 RULE— TRANSACTIONS WITH PERU-RATIFICATION OF TREATY, AND RECEPTION 

 OF MINISTER— CIVIL WAR IN PERU— DEFEAT OF SALAVERRY— NEW ORGANIZATION 

 OF PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT-RUPTURE BETWEEN CHILI AND PERU— SECRET EXPE- 

 DITION UNDER GENERAL FREYRE— INTELLIGENCE OF IT RECEIVED IN CHILI— AC- 

 TIVITY OF GOVERNMENT— CAPTURE OF FREYRE— HIS SECOND BANISHMENT— POPU- 

 LARITY OF THE ADMINISTRATION— SEIZURE OF PERUVIAN VESSELS— SUSPENSION 

 OF HOSTILITIES— CONVENTION— CHILI REFUSES TO RATIFY THE PROCEEDINGS — 

 CHILI SENDS HER FLEET— CHILI DECLARES WAR— EXPEDITION ORGANIZED-DE- 

 CREE OF PRESIDENT PRIETO-EXPEDITION FITTED OUT UNDER ADMIRAL BLANCO 

 -TROOPS QUARTERED AT QUILLOTA— PORTALES' INSPECTION OF TROOPS— HIS AR. 

 REST— VIDAURRE'S MUTINY— ACTA OF OFFICERS— NEWS REACHES VALPARAISO- 

 VOL. I. 2 B 



