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AUTHOR'S PREFACE 



TO TBK 



ClVli^ HISTORY QF CinL][i 



JpouK years have elapsed since 1 promised io 

 publish the present Es^ay on the Civil History 

 of Chili, as a continuation of the one formerly 

 written on the Natural History of that country. 

 ^Engagements of this kind are, however, from 

 t,heir nature, conditional. When I undertook 

 j^his work, it was in full confidence of being 

 in a short time in possession of the necessary 

 piaterials to complete it. The first volume of 

 the Abbe Olivares'^manuscript I had then in my 

 possession ; this, with what works had appeared 

 in print, supplied me with su,fi5.ciQnt documentg 

 until the year 1665 ; and I was in constant ex- 

 pectation of receiving from Peru the second 

 volume of the same author, in which he has 

 brought the subject down to a late period. 



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