Excerpt from Letters From Buenos Ayres and Chili: With an Original History of the Latter Country; Illustrated With Engravings The ship 'met with nothing but bad weather and contrary winds for some weeks; and from a succession of several heavy gales, the vessel sustained such serious injury, that the master was obliged to seek shelter in the port of Monte Video, on the river La Plata, where, as an Ame rican ship, it received a welcome recep tion. At this port, the Gentleman was. 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.