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The Araucanians have divided their country into 

 four principalities, or uthanmapu, to vt^hich they 

 have given the following names : Lavquenmapu, or 

 the maritime country ; Lelvunmapu, or the flat 

 country ; Inapiremapu, or the country at the foot 

 of the Andes ; and Piremapu, or the country of the 

 Andes. Each principality is divided into five pro- 

 vinces, or ailla-rehiie^ and each province into nine 

 commanderies, or rehue. The maritime principality 

 contains five provinces ; Arauco, Tucapel, Ilicura, 

 Boroa and Nagtolten. The principality of the 

 plain, Encol, Puren, Repocura, Maquehue, and Ma- 

 riquina. The principality at the foot of the Andes, 

 Marven, Colhue, Chacaico, Quecheregua, and Gu- 

 anahue. The principality of the Andes compre- 

 hends all the vallies situated between the limits 

 heretofore mentioned. The country of the Cunches 

 extends along the coast, between the Valdivia and 

 the Archipelago of Chiloe. Cunches is derived 

 from the word cunco^ which signifies a bunch of 

 grapes, and is allusive to the great fecundity of that 

 nation. The Huilliches occupy all the plains to the 

 east of the Cunches, from whom they are separated 

 partly by an imaginary line, and partly by that chain 

 of the Andes which extends from the Valdivia to 

 the extremity of Chili. They are called Huilliches, 

 which signifies southern men, from their country 

 being the farthest towards the south. Both the 

 Cunches and the Huilliches are warlike nations, and 

 allies of the Araucanians, to whom they rendered 

 important services in their wars with the Spaniards. 



Chili is one of the best countries in America. 



