Excerpt from A Narrative of the Expedition to the Rivers Orinoco and Apure, in South America: Which Sailed From England in November 1817, and Joined the Patriotic Forces in Venezuela and Caraccas In his characters of the insurgent leaders, the author has been guided by a sense of truth and justice alone. The barbarities in which some of them indulged were in credible, did not the chopping off of a wo man's hands, as in the case of Blrs. Bruton, and the murder of a royalist officer, with circumstances of savage refinement, almost unequalled in the annals of ferocity (see pages 420, too horribly confirm the appalling tale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.