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The Encyclopedia contains a description of this 

 place under the name of Angola which it was 

 afterwards called by the Spaniards, and speaks 

 of it as at present existing. 



After having made suitable provisions for this 

 colony, Valdivia returned to his favourite city of 

 Conception, where he instituted the three prin- 

 cipal military offices, that of quarter-master- 

 general, of serjeant-major, and of commissary, a 

 regulation that has ever since prevailed in the 

 royal army of Chili,* He then sent Alderete to 

 Spain with a particular account of his conquests, 

 and a large sum of money, and commissioned 

 him to use his utmost exertions to obtain for him 

 the perpetual government of the conquered coun- 

 try, with the title of Marquis of Arauco. At 

 the same time he dispatched Francis Ulloa with 

 a ship to examine the Straits of Magellan, by 

 which he hoped to open a direct communication 

 with Europe, without depending upon Peru. 



* But two of these offices at present exist ; that of the 

 <iuarter-mastei-general, who is also called the Intendant, and 

 resides in the city of Conception; and that of the serjeant- 

 major the latter has been since divided into two, one for the 

 cavalry, the other for the infantry. That of commissary is 

 only known in the city militia. 



