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people, or one accustomed to servitude, but a 

 generous nation detests cruelty, and it onlj serves 

 to exasperate and render thera irreconcileable. 

 Among the prisoners taken upon this occasion 

 was one more daring than any of the others, called 

 Galverino, whose hands Don Garcia ordered 

 to be cut off. He returned to his countrymen, 

 and showing his bloody mutilated stumps, in- 

 flamed thera with such fury against the Spa- 

 niardsj that they all swore never to make peace 

 with them, and to put to death any one who 

 should have the baseness to propose such a mea- 

 sure. Even the very women, excited by a desire 

 of revenge, offered to take arras and to fight by 

 the side of their husbands, as they did in the 

 subsequent battles. From hence originated the 

 fable of the Chilian Amazons, placed by some 

 authors in the southern districts of that country. 

 The victorious army penetrated into the pro- 

 vince of Arauco, constantly harassed by the 

 flying camps of the Araucanians, who left them 

 not a moment's rest. Don Garcia, when he ar- 

 rived at Melipuru, put to the torture several of 

 the natives whom his soldiers had taken, in order 

 to obtain information of Caupolican, but not- 

 withstanding the severity of their torments, none 

 of them would ever discover the place of his re- 

 treat. The Araucanian general, on being in- 

 formed of this barbarous conduct, sent word to 

 liim by a messenger, that he was but a short 



