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Title: In New Granada
Heroes and Patriots

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Release Date: May 9, 2007 [EBook #21401]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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In New Granada, Heroes and Patriots, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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A story about some English people who were caught up in the wars of
independence from Spain of a small South American country. We are shown
life on the side of the Patriots fighting against the cruel rule of the
Spaniards. Our friends have for various reasons to travel from one end
of the country to the other, with various fights with the Spanish on the
way.

There are numerous illustrations, but we are at first at least putting a
version without these onto the website. We very much hope that we will
find the opportunity of adding the pictures.

Well written, as always from this author, you will find this book very
interesting.

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IN NEW GRANADA, HEROES AND PATRIOTS, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

INTRODUCTORY--MY FATHER'S HISTORY--ENTERS THE NAVY AS A SURGEON--LEARNS
SPANISH--APPOINTED TO THE "ZEBRA," IN THE PACIFIC--TAKES DICKY DUFF
UNDER HIS CHARGE--A SHOOTING EXPEDITION ON SHORE--CAPTURED BY SPANIARDS
ON COAST OF GUATEMALA WITH DICKY AND PAUL LORO--CARRIED TO PANAMA--MEETS
AN OLD FRIEND, WHO TAKES HIM TO GUAYAQUIL--VISIT LOJA TO INSPECT
PERUVIAN BARK--MEETS DR. CAZALLA--ACCOMPANIES HIM TO POPAYAN--HE MARRIES
MISS CAZALLA, WHO BECOMES MY MOTHER; AND RICHARD DUFFIELD MARRIES HER
NIECE, AN HEIRESS--THEY BOTH SETTLE AT POPAYAN.

The circumstances which led my father, Dr Andrew Sinclair, to settle in
New Granada--the land of my birth--are of so romantic a character, that
I cannot better preface an account of my own adventures in that country
than by narrating them.

My grandfather, Duncan Sinclair, after whom I was named, was a member of
an old Covenanter family in Dumfriesshire, and was the pa