Besides these, Pizarro brought as many men from Spain to assist in his enterprize as he could procure, being mostly inhabitants of Truxillo and other places in Estremadura[11].
I added that I was going to Basle in Switzerland, and wanted to get to Friburg that evening, and would therefore be much obliged to him if he could procure me a conveyance.
For two nights, until we could procure lodgings, we were billeted at the inn Les Trois Maures, at which the Emperor Napoleon put up on his return after his splendid campaign in Germany and the Treaty of Tilsit.
Admiral Ball had ordered Barklimore a passage in her; but she unfortunately got out to sea before wecould procure him a conveyance.
Indeed, the place was so crowded that it was with the greatest difficulty I could procure even a little garret for my lodging.
But no sooner had we kindled our fires than an intolerable effluvium obliged us to, raise our camp and advance farther on, for we could procure no water to extinguish the fires.
The opposition to this measure was very great, and all the power of the First Consul, the force of his arguments, and the immense influence of his position, could procure him no more than 14 votes out of 24.
On Prithwi Narayan’s accession, he called in all the gold and silver money and recoined it, so that I could procure no pieces of a more ancient date than his reign.
Such is the account I could procure of the cultivation in the plains of Nepal.
The best account I have seen of their doctrine is that given by the learned Pallas, which is much more complete than any I could procure in Nepal.
As the riches of Peru consist chiefly in mines of silver, I shall endeavour to give some account of them, from the best information I could procure.
After our unsuccessful attempt to engage the people of the country to furnish us with the necessaries we wanted, we were obliged to be contented with what we could procure in the neighbourhood of the port.
For the space of 15 or 20 days, we could procure no fresh provisions, except some cranes and geese which we shot; and we could get no fish but mussels and other shell-fish, which we gathered on the rocks.
Few recovered here, as the climate was very unhealthy, and we could procure little or no refreshment.
They said that those Spaniards had soon fallen out among themselves after the departure of the admiral, everyone taking for himself as much gold and as many women as he could procure.
Your father and I remained fifteen days in Jersey, and resolved that he would remain with his brother in Caen, whilst he sent me into England, whither my father was gone a month before, to see if I could procure a sum of money.
There was a bad supply of water, and we could procure, nothing but a muddy mixture which smelt strongly of goats.
On the following morning, at sunrise, the now pious Howarti went out as usual with his casting-net accompanied by a sailor, who carried the largest basket he could procure.
He tried the effect of fire upon all the stones, earths, and minerals, that he could procure, both separately and mixed together in various proportions.
However, his passion for information was so great, that he contrived to educate himself by studying what books he could procure, and in this way acquired a great deal of knowledge.
To such a person money could be no object, as he could procure it in any quantity.
We remained some time at St. Andreas, selling goods, collecting debts, taking in all the cotton and other freight we could procure.
He told me to call on him in a short time, as he thought he could procure a freight for me.
On my arrival at the Cape I took on board all the return cargo I could procure, and proceeded to the Lagoon, stopping at the different harbors, as usual.
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