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ferred the siege until the following year, when 

 his attempts to take it were rendered ineffectual 

 by the valiant defence of Ximenes, the com- 

 mander. This failure was, however, recom-*.- 

 pensed by the capture of Neculguenu, the gar- 

 rison of which he put to the sword, and made 

 prisoners of all the auxiliaries who dwelt in the 

 neighbourhood. These successes were followed 

 by many others equally favourable, whence, ac- 

 cording to contemporary writers, who are satisfied 

 with mentioning them in general terms, he was 

 considered as the darling child of fortune. 



UUoa, more a victim to the mortification and 

 anxiety caused by the successes of Lientur than 

 to sickness, died on the 20th of November,* 



* About this time the governor of Peru, D. Geronime 

 Luiz de Cabrera, made an expedition in search of the city of 

 the Ccsares the El Dorado of Chili. 



In Charles 5th's reign the bishop of Placencia is said to have 

 sent out four ships to the Moluccas ; when they had advanced 

 about twenty leagues within the straits of Magalhaens,- three 

 of them were driven on shore and lost, but the crew escaped. 

 The fourth got back into the North Atlautick, and when the 

 weather abated again attempted the passage, and reached the 

 place where her comrades had been lost. The men were still 

 on the siiore, and entreated to be taken on board; this was 

 impossible there was neither room nor provisions, and there 

 they were left. An opinion prevailed that they got into tlie 

 -interior of Chili, settled there, and became a nation who 

 are called the Ccsares. It was believed that their very 

 ploughshares are of gold. Adventurers reported that they 

 had been near enough to hear the sound of their bells ; and it 



