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tíoncd incidenially. AU that we know is, gene- 

 rally, that this war was continued with great 

 violence for a period of ten years, under the go- 

 vernments of Don Pedro Portel Casanate, and Don 

 Francisco Meneses. The last, who was a Por- 

 tuguese by birth, had the glory of terminating it in 

 1665, by a peace more permanent than that made 

 by Baydes. But, after freeing himself of the Arau- 

 canians, he had the misfortune to engage in a contest 

 of a different kind with the members of the Royal 

 Audience, who opposed his marrying the daughter of 

 the Marquis de la Pica, as being contrary to the royal 

 decrees. The quarrel was carried to such length, 

 that the court of Spain was obliged to send out to 

 Chili the Marquis de Navamorquende, with full 

 powers to determine their diftcrence. That minister, 

 after due inquiry, sent Meneses to Peru, and took 

 possession of his office. After him, to the end of 

 the century, the government was administered in 

 succession by Don Pvliguel Silva, Don Joseph Car- 

 rera, and Don Thomas Marin de Proveda, all of 

 whom appear to have maintained a good understand- 

 ing with the Araucanians, though Garro had nearly 

 broken with them, on occasion of removing the in- 

 habitants of the island of Mocho in 1686, to the 

 north shore of the Bio-bio, in order to cut off all 

 communication with foreign enemies. 



The commencement of the present era was 

 marked in Chili by the deposition of the governor 

 Don Francisco Ibanez, the rebellion of the inhabi- 

 tants of Chiloe, and the trade with the French* 

 Ibanez, like Meneses, was banished to Peru, for hav- 



