VI CONTENTS. 



PACK 

 CHAP. III. — Military System of the Araucanians ; Their Arms 



and Mode of nuikiiig War, - - - - 61 



CHAP. IV. — Division of the Spoil; Sacrifice after War; 

 Congress of Peace, _ _ - - - 70 



CHAP. V. — System of Religion and funeral Ceremonies, 75 



CHAP. VI. — Division of Time; Astronomical Ideas; Mea- 

 sures, --- . . - - 85 



CHAP. VII.— RhetoiiÇi^Poetry ; Medical Skill ; Commerce 

 i)f the Araucanians, _ - . - - 85 



CHAP. VIII. — Pride of the Araucanians ; Kindness and Cha- 

 "^ rity towards each other ; Mode of Salutation ; Proper 



îsames, - _ . - _ - 96 



CHAP. IX. — Matrimony and.domestic Employments, ,f 99 



CHAP X.— Food ; Music and other Diversions, - 105 



BOOK 111. 



CHAP. I. — The Araucanians under the Conduct of Aillavilu, 

 and afterwards of Lincoyan, attack the Spaniards ; Val- 

 divia makes Incursions into th.eir Territory and founds 

 therein the Cities of Imperial, Villarica, Valdivia and 

 Angol, with several other Places, - - - 114 



CHiVP. II. — Caupolican appointed Toqui ; He attacks the 

 Forts of Arauco and of Tuca¡)el ; The Spanish Army en- 

 tirely defeated and Valdivia slain, - _ - 122 



CHAP. III. — The Spaniards abandon Puren, Angol and Vil- 

 larica .; Caupolican )ays Siege to Imijcrial and Valdivia ; 

 Lautaro defeats the Spanish Army in Mariguenu, and 

 destroys Conception, . . _ _ 133 



CHAP. IV. — Villagian raises the Sieges of Imperial and 

 Valdivia ; The Small Pex breaks out among the Arauca- 

 nians ; Conc^])lion having been rebuilt, Lautaro returns and 

 destroys it ; He nnrches againèt St. Jago, and is killed, 137 



CHAP. V. — Don Garcia de Mendoza arrives at Chili, with a 

 Reinforcement of Troops ; His Expedition against Cau- 

 polican, ._._.- 14? 



