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Who conducted him safely to Imperial through the 

 country of the Huilliches, which is for the most part 

 level, and abounds in provisions. The inhabitants, 

 who are similar in every respect to their western 

 neighbours, the Cunchese, made no opposition to 

 his passage. He there founded, or according to 

 6ome writers, rebuilt the city of Osorno, which in- 

 creased rapidly, not less from its manufactories of 

 woollen and linen stufts, than from the fine gold 

 procured from its mines, which were afterwards des- 

 troyed by the Toqui Paillamacu. 



During this expedition Alonzo Reynoso, com- 

 mander of Cañete, after having for a long time at- 

 tempted by offers of reward and by means of tor- 

 ture, to obtain from the natives information of the 

 retreat of Caupolican, at length found one less in- 

 flexible, who promised to discover the place where 

 he had concealed himself, since his last defeat. A 

 detachment of cavalry ^vas immediately sent under 

 the guidance of this spy, and at day break made 

 prisoner of that great man, but not till after a gal- 

 lant resistance from ten of his most faithful soldiers, 

 who would not abandon him. His wife, who never 

 ceased exhorting him to die rather than surrender, 

 on seeing him taken, indignantly threw towards him 

 his infant son, saying, she would retain nothing that 

 belonged to a coward. 



The detachment returned to the city amidst the 

 rejoicings of the populace, and conducted their 

 prisoner to Reynoso, who immediately ordered Iiim 

 to be impaled and dispatched with arrows. On 

 hearing his sentence, Caupolican, without the least 



