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The missionary^ on being invited by that 

 oflScer, repaired under the protection of the U I 

 men Lancamilla to NancUj the principal place in 

 the province of Catiray, where, in the presence 

 of fifty of those chiefs, he made know^n his 

 business and the substance of his negotiation, 

 read the royal dispatches, and entered into a long 

 explanation of the motives of his voyage, which 

 concerned the general good of their souls. The 

 assembly thanked him for his exertions, and 

 promised to make a favourable report to the 

 general* 



Carampangui insisted on accompanying Val- 

 divia to Conception, where he met with the go- 

 vernor, who dispatched the letter of the king to 

 Ancanamon by Pedro Melendez, one of his en- 

 signs, with a request that he would come to Pai- 

 cavi, in order to confer with him upon the preli- 

 minaries of the peace. The Toqui was not long 

 in repairing to the place appointed, with a small 

 guard of forty soldiers and several Ulmenes. 

 In his train were also a number of Spanish pri- 

 soners of the first families, to whom he had given 

 their liberty. The governor, Valdivia, and the 

 principal officers of the government, came out 

 to receive him, and conducted him to his lodg- 

 ings under the discharge of artillery. They then 

 proceeded to discuss the articles of peace, which 

 were, that the river Bio-bio should serve as a 

 barrier to both nations, so that neither should be 



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