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CHAP. IV. 



iSoternment of the Marquis de Vitlar-liermosa ; 

 His Successes against Paynenancu ; Capture 

 and Death of that Ge?ieral ; Enterprises of the 

 Toqili Ca;i)ancura and his Son Nangoniel ; 

 Landing of the English in Chili ; Operations 

 of the Toqui Cadeguala. 



As soon as information was re(?eived in Spain ot 

 the death of Quiroga, the king sent out as go- 

 vernor to Chili, Don Alonzo Sotomayor, with six 

 hundred regular troops^ who, in 1583, landed at 

 Buenos Ayres, and from thence proceeded to 

 Santiago. He immediately sent his brother Don 

 Louis, whom he appointed to the new office of 

 colonel of the kingdom^ to succour the cities of 

 Villarica ^nd Valdivia, which were besieged by 

 the Araucanians. That officer raised the sieges 

 of those places after having twice- defeated Pay-- 

 ncnancu, who attempted to oppose his march. 

 Notwithstanding these reverses the enterprising 

 Toqui turned his arms against Tiburcio Heredia, 

 and afterwards against Antonio Gallegaillcs, 

 who were ravaging the country with a large 

 body of cavalry ; by these he was likewise de- 



