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pro'/inces, undertook the conqiieft of them ; and pro- 

 iecuteo the enterprize wi:h fuc'. fuccfis, that he fub- 

 dued the feveral nations inhabiting the valleys of Co- 

 poyapu or Copiapo, Coquimpu or Coquimbo, and 

 Chili. But in his intended career fouthward, the vic- 

 torious Ynca met with an unfurmcuntable difficulty 

 from rhe Purumauco Indians, and other nations, 

 whom the rapidity of his conquefts had induced to 

 oppofe him by a general confederacy. Thus he found 

 hin^fclf under a necefllty of defifting, afcer having 

 carried his arms as far as the river MauJi, which is in 

 the latitude of 34° 30'. 



After the Spaniards had underraken a defcent 

 in Peru, and made themfelves mailers of its feveral 

 provinces, the marfhal Don Diego de Almagro was 

 commiiTioned for the coriqueft of Chili. Accordingly 

 he marched from Cufco at the beginning of the year 

 1535, and after lofing the greateft part of his Indians, 

 and a confiderable number of Spaniarc^s, who pe- 

 riihed v/ith cold in paffing over the Cordillera Nevada, 

 he arrived at Copiapo, where the Indians, without try- 

 ing the chance of war, fubmitied. Animated with 

 fuch unexpeded pufillanirnity> he proceeded to the 

 conqueft of other nations; even fuch as never had ac- 

 knowledged the Yncas. And though he here met 

 with a more warlike people, who were determined to 

 fell their libe;ty dear, he carried rn the war profper- 

 oufly. But his majefty, in confiderati-, n of his great 

 fervices, performed with fo much hazard, having con- 

 ferred on him the government of a territory a hundred 

 leagues in length, fouih of tiiat which belonged to 

 the marquis Don Franciico Pizarro, a cliffeirnce a- 

 roíé between thefe two great men, wnh regard 10 the 

 boundaries of their refpedlive governments, AL.^a- 

 gro, impatient to take poffeiTion, ^i.nd pretendió- ^^lat 

 the city of Cufco ought to be included in his govern- 

 menr, the conqueft was fuí'pcnded, and he hinilelf 

 haftened to that city, where inftead of being invcfted 

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