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attacked the enemy's works with such vigour, that 

 after a dreadful combat of about four hours, they 

 forced them, and put the Araucanians to flight. Ca- 

 yancura, extremely mortified at the ill success of his 

 enterprise, retired to his Ulmenate, leaving the com- 

 mand of the army to his son Nangoniel, a youth of 

 great hopes, and much beloved by the nation. 



The young commander immediately collected 

 some companies of infantry and a hundred and fifty 

 horse, which from hence forward began to form a 

 part of the Araucanian force, and returned to invest 

 the same fortress, whose environs he so closely 

 guarded, that the Spaniards, unable to procure a 

 supply of provisions, were at length compelled to 

 evacuate it. Encouraged by this good fortune, he 

 proceeded against the fort of Trinidad which protect- 

 ed the passage of the enemy's supplies by the Bio- 

 bio ; but having fallen in on the road with a divi- 

 sion of Spanish troops, under the command of Fran- 

 cisco Hernandez, he lost an arm in the contest, af- 

 ter having received several other dangerous wounds. 

 This misfortune obliged him to retire to a neigh- 

 bouring mountain, where he was drawn into an am- 

 bush by the sergeant-major, and slain with fifty of 

 his soldiers, notwithstanding the great valour with 

 which they defended themselves for a long time. 

 The same day Cadeguala, who had obtained great 

 reputation in the army for his courage and military 

 skijl, was proclaimed Toqui by his officers. 



Whilst the Araucanians endeavoured to oppose 

 the progress of the Spariiards in their country, the 

 English also planned an expedition against them in 



