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took care to avoid it, resolving to reserve Bi 

 force for a more favourable occasion. 



Finding no other means to restrain him, Loyola 

 erected in the neighbourhood of his encampment 

 tvFO forts, one upon the ancient site of that of 

 Puren, and the other on the very border of the 

 marshes of Lumaco. These he garrisoned v/ith 

 the greater part of a reinforcement of troops 

 which at that time he received from Peru, and 

 sent the remainder, in 1597, to found an esta- 

 blishment in the province of Cujo, under the 

 name of St. Louis de Loyola, which still exists, 

 although in a miserable condition, notwithstand- 

 ing the advantages of its situation. 



Paillamachu soon took by storm the fortress 

 of Lumaco, and gave the charge of reducing 

 that of Puren to Pelantaru and Millacalquin. 

 Having in ten days reduced the garrison to ex- 

 tremity, these officers, agreeably to the instruc- 

 tions of their general, retired on the arrival of a 

 reinforcement of Spaniards under the command 

 of Pedro Cortez, who had obtained great repu- 

 tation in that war. The governor, nevertheless, 

 shortly after arriving there with the rest of the 

 army, ordered the fortifications to be demolished, 

 and the garrison to be transferred to Angol, 

 fearing to expose it to the fate of that of Lumaco. 

 He then proceeded to Imperial, to secure that 

 city in the best possible manner against the in- 

 creasing strength of the enemy. 



