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science suggested to him, to effect their subju- 

 gation ; nosv endeavouring by his victories to 

 humble their pride, now ravaging their country 

 with fire and sword, and now restraining them 

 by the construction of fortresses in different 

 places in their territory. He also founded a city 

 not far from the ruins of Angol, to which he 

 gave the name of St. Francis de la Vega. This 

 settlement, which was protected by a garrison of 

 four companies of horse and two of foot, was 

 taken and destroyed by the Toqui Curimilla the 

 very year of its foundation. 



A war so obstinate must necessarily have caused 

 the destruction of a great number of men. Tbe 

 Spanish army had become more than one half 

 diminished, notwithstanding the numerous re- 

 cruits with which it was annually supplied from 

 Peru. On this account the governor sent Don 

 Francisco Avendano to Spain to solicit new re- 

 inforcements, promising to bring the war to a 

 termination in the course of two years. But the 

 court, judging from the past that there was little 

 reason to expect so successful an issue, appointed 

 him a successor in the person of Don Francisco 

 Zuniga Marquis de Baydes, who had given un- 

 questionable proofs of his political and military 

 talents, both in Italy and Flanders, where he had 

 sustained the office of quarter-master-gencral. 



On his arrival in Chili in 1740, this nobleman, 

 either in consequence of private instructions from 



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