The Emancipation of South America

CHAPTER XXXIV.

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SAN MARTIN AND COCHRANE.

1821--1822.

Mutual Invectives of Two Heroes--San Martin fails to fulfil his Promises to the Fleet--A Stormy Interview--Cochrane seizes Treasure--Cochrane pays his Men with Government Funds--And sails for Guayaquil--Surrender of Two Spanish Frigates to Peruvian Agents--Cochrane attempts to seize the _Venganza_--Returns to Callao and Captures the _Montezuma_--Returns to Chile and abandons the Pacific--The New Peruvian Navy.....287