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feated, but the victors paid dearly for their 

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In the meantime the governor^ having driven 

 off the Pehuenches who infested the new settle- 

 ment of Chilian, entered the Araucaniau territory' 

 with seven hundred Spaniards, and a great number 

 of auxiliaries, resolved to pursue the rigorous 

 system of making war which had been adopted 

 by Don Garcia, in preference to the mild and 

 humane policy of his immediate predecessors. 

 The province of Encol was the first that expe- 

 rienced the effects of his severity. He laid it en- 

 tirely waste with fire and sword. Those who were 

 taken prisoners were either hung or sent away 

 with their hands cut off, in order to intimidate 

 their countrymen. The provinces of Puren* 

 llicura, and Tucapel, would have shared the 

 same fate, if the inhabitants had not secured 

 themselves by flight before the arrival of the 

 enemy, after setting on fire their houses and 

 their crops. In the last province they took only 

 three of the inhabitants prisoners, who were im- 

 paled. Notwithstanding these severities, a num- 

 ber of mustees and mulattoes joined the Arauca- 

 iiians, and even some Spaniards, among whom 

 was Juan Sanchez, who acquired great repu- 

 tation. 



The Araucaoian general, impelled either by 

 his natural audacity, or by despair, on finding 

 himself fallea iu the estimation of the native iu- 



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