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Chilians who inhabit tli<i eastern values of the Andes, 

 both the Pehucnches, the Puelches, and the Huilli- 

 ches, as well as the Chiquillaiiians, are much redder 

 than those of their countrymen who dwell to the 

 westward of that mountain. AH these mountaineers 

 dress themselves in skins, paint their faces, live in 

 gen«ral by hunting, and lead a wandering and un- 

 settled life. They are no other, as I have hitherto 

 observed, than the so much celebrated Patagonians, 

 who have occasionally been seen near the straits of 

 Magellan, and have been at one time described as 

 giants, and at another as men a little above the com- 

 mon stature. It is true that they are, generally 

 speaking, of a lofty stature and great strength. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



Governmeiit of the Marquis de Villar-hermosa ; His 

 Successes against Paynenancii; Capture and Death 

 of that Genei'al ; Enterprises of the Toqui Cayan- 

 cura and his Son Nangoniel ; Landing of the Eng- 

 lish in Chili ; Operations of the Toqui Cadcguala. 



AS soon as information v.as received in. Spain of 

 the death of Quiroga, the king sent out as governor 

 to Chili Don Alonzo Sotomayor, with eix hundred 

 regular troops, who, in 1583, landed at Buenos 



