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continued the war with similar fortune, until his 

 death, which happened on the 1 Ith of September, 



1624. He was succeeded by his brother-in-law, 

 Francisco Alava, who retained the office only six 

 months. ,'m\ 



Lientur at length, advanced in years, and fa- 

 tigued with his continual exertions, resigned, in 



1625, the chief command to Putapichion, a young 

 man, of a character for courage and conduct very 

 similar to his own, who had passed the early part 

 of his youth among the Spaniards, as a slave to one 

 .t)iego Truxillo, The Spaniards also possessed at 

 the same time a commander of uncommon valour 

 and military skill : this was Don Louis de Cor- 

 dova, lord of Carpio, and nephew to the viceroy 

 of Peru, by whom he was abundantly supplied 

 with warlike stores and soldiers, and ordered, in 

 the name of the court, not to confine himself to 

 defensive war, but to attack directly the Arau- 

 canian territory in various quarters. 



His first care on his arrival at Conception was 

 to introduce a reform of the military, and to pay 

 the soldiers the arrears that were due to them. 

 Those offices that were vacant he conferred on 

 the Creoles, or descendants of the conquerors, 

 who had been for the most part neglected ; and 

 by this measure, not only obtained their esteem, 

 bat that of all the inhabitants. After having 

 established order in the government, he directed 

 kis cousin Alonzo Cordova, whom he had ap- 



