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small a force, Valdivia had the farther rashness on 

 his return to Santiago to dispatch Francis de Aguirre, 

 with two hundred men, to conquer the provinces of 

 Cujo andTucuman, situated to the east of the Andes. 

 It is true that about this time he received by sea from 

 Peru a considerable body of recruits, and 350 un- 

 mounted horses, but this reinforcement was little, 

 compared to the vast number of people necessary to 

 retain in subjection. 



Nevertheless, indefatigable in the execution of his 

 extensive plans, which bore a flattering appearance 

 of success, the Spanish general returned to Arau ca- 

 nia, and in the province of Eiicol founded the seventh 

 and last city, in a country fertile in vines, and gave 

 it the name of the City of the Frontiers. This name, 

 from events which could not possibly have been in 

 the calculation of Valdivia, has become strictly ap- 

 plicable to its present state, as its ruins are in reality 

 situated upon the confines of tlie Spanish settlement 

 in that part of Chili. It was a rich and commercial 

 city, and its wines were transported to Buenos Ayres 

 by a road over the Cordilleras. The Encyclopedia 

 contains a description of this place under the name of 

 Angol, which it was afterwards called by the Spa- 

 niards, and speaks of it as at present existing. 



After having made suitable provisions for this 

 colony, Valdivia returned to his favourite city of 

 Conception, where he instituted the three principal 

 military offices, that of quarter-master-general, of 

 aerjeant-major, and of commissary, a regulation that 



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