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treat;, sent the quarter-master Sea to surprise him 

 with four hundred light armed troops. These 

 arriving unexpectedly, Quepuantu took refuge, 

 , as he had planned, in the wood, but ashamed of 

 his flight, he returned with about fifty men, who 

 had come to his assistance, and furiously attacked 

 the assailants. He continued fighting desperately 

 for half an hour, but having lost almost all his 

 men, accepted a challenge from Loncomallu, 

 chief of the auxiliaries, by whom, after a long 

 combat, he was slain. 



A similar fate, in 1634, befel his successor and 

 relation Loncomilla, in fighting with a small 

 number of troops against a strong division of the 

 Spanish army. Guenucalquin, who succeeded 

 him, after having made some fortunate incursions 

 into the Spanish provinces, lost his life in an en- 

 gagement with six hundred Spaniards, in the pro- 

 vince of Ilicura. Curanteo, who was created 

 Toqui in the heat of the action, had the glory of 

 terminating it by the rout of the enemy, but was 

 shortly after killed in another conflict. Curi- 

 milla, more daring than his predecessors, re- 

 peatedly ravaged the provinces to the north of 

 the Bio-bio, and undertook the siege of Arauco, 

 and of the other fortifications on the frontier, 

 but was finally killed by Sea in Calcoimo. 



During the government of this Toqui, the 

 Dutch attempted a second time to form an alli- 

 ance with the Araucaniaus, in order to obtain 



