iq6 ovalle*s historical relation of chile. 



lall being thoroughly fatisfied that the Spaniards were neither gods nor immortal, nor 

 of any other fpecies than they, but fubjed to all human infirmities, they began to fear 

 them no longer, but refolved to fall upon them. 



CHAP. XIV. -r The City of Angol is peopled, and the Indians rife againfi the 



Spaniards. 



UPON occafion of the mines that were begun t6 be wrought in the diftrift of 

 Angol, the governor Pedro de Valdivia fettled a city of that name there, which was 

 alfo called the city of the confines. Some attribute this foundation to the Marquis of 

 Cannette, Don Garcia Urtado de Mendoga, who governed after the death of Pedro de 

 Valdivia: perhaps the reafon of this is, that the fituation of this city at firft was three 

 leagues from the place where it now ftands : fo it might be that Valdivia firft fettled 

 it, and the Marquis removed it to the place it is now in, and that was ground enough 

 to make him the founder. 



The prefent fituation is in a plain, very large and difengaged, eight leagues from 

 the jCordillera, and twenty from the Conception ; fome fay fixteen, which perhaps is 

 caufed by the diiference of its two fituations. Their longeft day and longeft night are 

 of fourteen hours and a half. The land is very fertile; fruits ripen very well: ther^ 

 is good wine, and good ftore of raifms dried in the fun, figs, and other dried fruits j 

 a vaft quantity of tall cyprefles, which yield a very fweet-fcented wood, of which, 

 Herrera fays, there is made a gum-lac. The great river Biobio runs by it, and ferves 

 it for a wall and ditch on the fouth fide ; and on the north fide another pleafant 

 rivulet comes running from hills of a moderate height, and turns many mills for the 

 ufe of the city. Thofe whom I have known that have been born in this city, have 

 proved very gentle in their difpofitions, of good wits, and noble inclinations, very 

 friendly and real, and extremely loyal to the King, as indeed all the Chilenians are^ 

 looking upon that as the higheft pundo of their gentility. 



Now let us return to the Araucanos, who were bufy in calling together their alTem- 

 blies there, to treat how to caft off the yoke of fervitude, and make themfelves 

 mafters of that which was truly theirs. So it was, that the Caciques being poffefled 

 with an opinion that their forces were not inferior to the Spaniards, began to call them 

 together ; and they needed no incitements of pay or money ; for the love of their 

 liberty, and poffeffions, and pofterity, was a fufficient fpur to them, thinking every 

 day a year that kept them from engaging with their enemies, 'and conquering them. 

 The Caciques that met were thefe : firft, Tucapel, a great butcher of Chriftians, with 

 three thoufand foldiers ; Angol, who was very brave, with four thoufand ; Cayocupil, 

 with three thoufand men, whom he brought from the Cordillera, as hardy as the rocks 

 they came from, and made to endure any labour ; Millarapue, an old man, of great 

 wifdom, he brought five thoufand j Paicavi, with three thoufand ; Lemoleno, with fix 

 thoufand ; Mareguano, Gualemo, and Leucopie, each with three thoufar^d ; the robuft 

 Elicuera, held for one of the ftrongeft men, with fix thoufand, and they antient ; and 

 chief of all, Colocolo, with as many more. Ongolmo offered four thoufand ; and 

 Puren fix thoufand ; Lincoyce, who was of the ftature of a giant, offered to bring more 

 than any ; Peteguelen, lord of the valley of Arauco, from whence the whole took their 

 name, came with fix thoufand ; and the famous Caupolican, and his two neighbours 

 Thome and Audalican, and many others, kept themfelves ready to come in with their 

 fubjeds. They met, according to their cuftom, to eat and. drink at their appointed 

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