THE 



CIVIL HISTORY 



OF 



CHILL 



BOOK IV. 



CHAPTER I. 



The Toqui Antiguenu recommences the War ; His 

 Successes against Francis Villagran^ the Governor ; 

 Destruction of Cañete ; Sieges of Arauco and of 

 Conception ; Battle of the Bio-bio, 



THE governor appointed in place of Don Garcia 

 was his predecessor, Francis Villagran, who having 

 gone to Europe after he had been deprived of the 

 government, procured his reinstatement therein from 

 the court of Spain. On his arrival at Chili, suppo- 

 sing from the information of Don Garcia and Quiro- 

 ga that nothing more was necessary to be done with 

 the Araucanians, and that they were in no condition 

 to give him trouble, Villagran turned his attention 

 to the re-acquisition of the province of Tucuman, 

 which, after having been by him, in 1549, subjected 

 to the government of Chili, had been since attached 

 ÍQ the viceroy alty of Peru. Gregori Castañeda, who 



