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with their aitciidants, who amounted to the 

 number of two thousand meiij and the camps of 

 the negociaiing parties were separated by an in- 

 terval of two miles. 



The conference is commenced with many com- 

 pliments upon either side, and in token of future 

 friendship^ they bind the staves of the Ulmenes 

 with that of the Spanish president together, and 

 place them in the midst of the assembly; an 

 Araucanian orator then presents a branch of 

 cinnamon, which is with them the token of peace, 

 and placing his left hand upon the bundle of 

 staves, makes in the Chilian language a pertinent 

 harangue upon the causes that produced the 

 war, and the most eligible means of preserving 

 harmony between the two nations. He then 

 proceeds with much eloquence and energy to 

 point out the losses and miseries occasioned by 

 war, and the advantages that are derived from 

 peace, to which he exhorts the chiefs of either 

 party in a pathetic peroration. An interpreter 

 then explains the precise meaning ^f all that the 

 Araucanian has said. The Spanish president re- 

 plies in another speech adapted to the subject, 

 which is interpreted in the same manner. The 

 articles of the treaty are then agreed upon, and 

 are ratified by a sacrifice of several Chilihueques, 

 or Chilian camels, which the Arauca^ians immo- 

 late for the happy continuance of the peace. 

 After this the president dines at the same table 



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