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not fay who was the captain of them. Perhaps there were alfo other commanders, who 

 in thole fix years time entered into Chile with men ; and I fhould be glad to be where 

 I might have particular information of them, to do them at lead that fmall honour of 

 putting their names in print, and giving fome glory to aftions which, perhaps, deferve 

 to be graved in brafs. 



I do not likewife fet down here, that famous fupply of men brought by the fecondi 

 governor of Chile, Don Garcia Hurtado de Mendo9a, Marquis of Cannete, for this 

 fhall be fpoke of in its proper place, after the death of the Governor Pedro de Valdi- 

 via ; and thus we fliall conclude thofe who entered by the way of Peru. For though 

 lince that time, there have been feveral fupplies, and are every day ftill more, yet they 

 have not been remarkable enough, as not having come at firft, but after the fettlements 

 were made ; and befides, it would carry me too far to report them all. But I fhall 

 add here thofe which have come from Spain by the way of Buenos Ayres, as well 

 becaufe they were the moft numerous, fome having been of five hundred or a thoufand 

 men, as having come in dangerous times, when the kingdom was ready to be loft, the 

 enemy having, as it were, befieged it ; and fo it is juft to preferve the memory of fuch 

 famous benefadors, who have been, as it were, fathers of their country. 



CHAP, XII. — The Governor Pedro de Valdivia purfues his Conqueji, and peoples the 

 City called of the Conception, where he had like to have been dejiroyed in a Battle, 



THE Governor Pedro de Valdivia, feeing himfelf with a good force, and the great- 

 nefs of his mind perfuading him that he had wherewithal to put an end to his enter- 

 prize, Herrera fays he fent to the other fide of the Cordillera, from St.Jago, Captain 

 Francifco Aquirra with a good number of men, with which he pafled thofe terrible 

 mountains, and founded the Diagutas and Juries. 



Herrera fays no more : nor do I know any thing of thofe individual places and cities 

 which he founded. The Governor Valdivia, on his fide, fet out of St.Jago with a 

 powerful army, and, pafling the furious river of Maypo, Cachapoal, Tinguiritica, Pe- 

 teroa, Tena, and Metaquito, he conquered the Promocaes, a warlike people, who had 

 refifted Almagro, and, before that, had repulfed an army of fifty thoufand men, which 

 the Inga had fent againft them when he endeavoured to conquer Chile ; but the good 

 fortune and great valour of Valdivia and his men overcame that which feemed invinci- 

 ble, though I am perfuaded that it was not without blood : but I refer myfelf to the 

 general hiflory of Chile, which has defcribed the particular encounters and battles on 

 both fides. 



The army paffed the deep river of Maule, and the wide Itata, and coming to that of 

 Audalien, quartered by the fea-fide ; and, for the conveniency of fituation, he founded 

 there the city of the Conception in the year 1550. But the natives, aflonifhed and 

 enraged at this boldnefs of ftrangers, to enter thus into the heart of their country, as 

 if it were their own, called a general afTembly, and, with a numerous and brave army, 

 prefented them battle fo furioufly, that our people began to wifh they had not engaged 

 themfelves fo far. Much blood was fhed on both fides ; and our army was in great 

 danger of being deflroyed, till it pleafed God, (who guides all things to his ends,) 

 who was to reap the fruit of his vidory over thofe Gentiles, whom he had predefti- 

 nated by the means of the Gofpel, which was to be preached to them in cafe the Spa- 

 niards were vidorious, to make them fo at laft, and that very glorioufly, the famous 



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