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\ self in a place surrounded by precipices, which 

 she deemed perfectly secure ; from whence she 

 daily infested the environs of that city in such a 

 manner J that no one ventured to leave it. 



The governor, moved by the complaints of 

 the citizens, sent his brother Don Louis to their 

 aid, with the greater part of two reinforce- 

 ments that he had lately received from Peru, 

 under the command of Castillejo and Penalosa. 

 The intrepid Janequeo awaited him valiantly in 

 her retreat, repelling with great presence of mind 

 the various assaults of the Spaniards ; until her 

 soldiers being dispersed by the artiller}^ she saw 

 herself obliged to provide for her safety by 

 flight. Her brother was taken in attempting to 

 escape, and obtained his life from the victors on 

 condition of promising on oath to keep his sister 

 quiet, and securing to them the friendship of his 

 vassals and adherents ; but while this proposal 

 was debated in a national council, he was killed 

 by the Ulmen Catipiuque, who abhorred any 

 kind of reconciliation. 



The old Toqui Guanoalca died at the close of 

 this year, and in 1591, Quintuguenu, an enter- 

 prising young man, and ambitious of glory, was 

 appointed his successor. Having taken by assault 

 the fort of Mariguenu, he encamped with two 

 thousand men upon the toa of that mountain, 

 hoping, by some importanF victory, to render 

 himself as celebrated there as Lautaro. The 



