CONTENTS. 



BOOK I. 



PAGE 



CHAPTER I.— Of the Origin Appearance and Langua^ of 

 the Chilians, - - - - - - 1 



CHAP. II.— Conquest of the Peruvians, - - 8 ' 



CHAP. Ill State of Chili before the arrival of the Spa- 

 niards ; Its Agriculture and Aliment, - - 12 



CHAP. IV. — Political Establishments ; Government and Arts, 1 S 



CHAP. V. — First Expedition of the Spaniards in Chili, - 26 



CHAP^.-'VI. — The Spaniards return to Chili, under the com- 

 mand of Pedro de Valdivia ; St. Jago the Capital founded ; 

 Various Encounters with the Natives ; Conspiracy of the 

 Soldiery against the Generaly - - - 33 



CHAP. VII. — The Copiapins defeat a Body of Spaniards ; 

 successful Stratagem employed by the Quillotanes ; Val- 

 divia receives Reinforcements from Peru; He founds the 

 City of Coquimbo, which is destroyed by the Natives ; The 

 Promauci ans form an Alliance with the Spaniards; Foun- 

 dation of the City of Conception, - - - 40 



BOOK II. 



CHAP. I. — Local Situation, Character, Dress and Dwellings 

 of the Araucanians, - - - - - 4» 



CHAP. II. — Division of the Araucanian State ; Its political 

 Form and civil Institutions, > . - - 55 



