Usage examples for cacique:
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Yet
the
cacique
when
charged
by
Pizarro
with
this
perfidious
scheme,
denied
it
with
such
an
air
of
conscious
innocence,
that
the
Spanish
commander
trusted
himself
and
his
followers,
without
further
hesitation,
to
his
conveyance,
and
was
transported
in
safety
to
the
shores
of
Puna.
"History-of-the-Conquest-of-Peru-with-a-preliminary-view-of-the-civilization-of-the-Incas", Prescott, William Hickling
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Each
figure
was
perhaps
the
portrait
of
some
cacique
warrior,
prophet,
or
priest,
distinguished
in
the
history
of
this
unknown
people.
"Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I.", John L. Stephens
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The
way
in
which
the
wire-
pulling
is
done
from
Madrid,
in
case
of
an
election,
is
through
the
cacique
or
chief
person
in
each
constituency;
hence
the
name
of
the
process.
"Spanish Life in Town and Country", L. Higgin and Eugène E. Street
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I
sent
with
John
Douglas
an
old
cacique
of
Trinidad
for
a
pilot,
who
told
us
that
we
could
not
return
again
by
the
bay
or
gulf,
but
that
he
knew
a
by-
branch
which
ran
within
the
land
to
the
eastward,
and
he
thought
by
it
we
might
fall
into
Capuri,
and
so
return
in
four
days.
"The Discovery of Guiana", Sir Walter Raleigh