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officer^ who had gained experience in the Italian 

 waFj and, what was a still greater recommenda- 

 tion, was attached to his party, directing him to 

 take de Hoz with him, who was probably more 

 to be feared than his colleague, and to allow 

 him every advantage in the partition of the lands. 



This officer having determined to establish a 

 permanent settlement in the country, set out on 

 his march in the year 1540, with 00 Spaniards, 

 and a numerous body of Peruvian auxiliaries, 

 accompanied by some monks, several women^ 

 and a great number of European quadrupeds, 

 with every thing requisite for a new colony. 

 He pursued the same route as Almagro, but in- 

 structed by the misfortunes of his predecessor, 

 he did not attempt to pass the Andes until mid- 

 summer. He entered Chili without incurring 

 any loss, but very different was the reception he 

 experienced from the inhabitants of the northern 

 provinces from that which Almagro had m^ 

 with. Those people, informed of the fate of 

 Peru, and freed from the submission they pro- 

 fessed to owe the Inca, did not consider them- 

 selves obliged to respect their invaders. 



They, of course, began to attack them upon 

 all sides, with more valour than conduct. Likfe 

 barbarisms in general, incapable of making a 

 common cause with each other, and for a long 

 time accustomed to the yoke of servitude, they 

 i^ttacked them by hordes, or tribes, as they ad- 



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