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CHAP. VI. 



The Toqui Paillamachu kills Loyola the Go- 

 vernor, and destroys all the Spanish Settiements 

 in Araucania. 



After the death of Paillaeco, the Araucaniang 

 appointed to the chief command the hereditarj 

 Toqui of the second Uthahnapu, called Pailla- 

 machuj a man of a very advanced age, but of 

 wonderful activity. Fortune, commonly supposed 

 not to be propitious to the old, so far favoured 

 his enterprises, that he surpassed all his pre- 

 decessors in military glory, and had the singular 

 felicity of restoring his country to its ancient 

 state of independence. No sooner was he in- 

 vested vfiih the supreme power, than he appointed 

 Pelantaru and Millacalquin, two officers not 

 inferior to himself in merit, to the important 

 charge of Vice Toqui, deviating in this instance 

 from the established custom, which allowed only 

 one lieutenant to the general. As the Arajica- 

 nian force was, however, greatly diminished, he 

 imitated the example of Antiguenu, and with- 

 drew to the marshes of Lumaco, where he ap- 

 plied himself to form an army capable of exc-- 

 (luting his extensive plans. 



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