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ard on the right. Quiiituguenu, although sur- 

 rounded on every side, rendered for a long time 

 the event of the battle doubtful. He main- 

 tained his troops in good order,, and conjured 

 them not to dishonour by an ignominious defeat 

 a place that had so often witnessed the victories 

 of their ancestors. \V hilst he flew from rank to 

 rank animating his men, and constantly con- 

 fronting the enemy, be fell, pierced with three 

 mortal wounds by the governor, who had singled 

 him out and taken aim at him. The last word 

 he uttered was an enthusiastic exclamation of 

 liberty. 



On seeing him dead, a part of his soldiers in 

 despair suffered themselves to be cut in pieces, 

 and the rest betook themselves to flight. Almost 

 aU the auxiliaries were slain, but of the Spa- 

 niards it is said that only twenty fell in the 

 battle ; of which number was a Portuguese 

 knight of the order of Christ, who was slain in 

 the beginning of the conflict. 



The governor, highly gratified with being the 

 first conqueror of the Araucanians on the formi- 

 dable Mariguenu, conducted his army to the 

 gea shore, where he was saluted with repeated 

 discharges of cannon from the Peruvian fleet, 

 which, in scouring the coast in search of the 

 English, had witnessed the victory. These de- 

 monstrations of general joy were answered on 

 the part of the army by frequent volleys of 



