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Chiliaíis who inhabit th^ eastern vallies of the Andes, 

 both the Pehuenches, the Puelches, and the Huilli- 

 ches, as well as the Chiquillanians, are much redder 

 than those of their countrymen who dwell to the 

 westward of that mountain. All these mountaineers 

 dress themselves in skins, paint their faces, live in 

 general by hunting, and lead a wandering and un- 

 settled life. They are no other, as I have hitherto 

 observed, than the so much celebrated Patagonians, 

 wlio have occasionally been seen near the straits ol* 

 Magellan, and have been at one time deayCribed as 

 giants, and at another as men a little above the com* 

 mon stature. It is üaie that tliey are, generally 

 speaking, of a lofty stature and great strength* 



CHAPTER IV. 



Government of the Marquis de Villar -hermosa ; His 

 Successes against Paynenancit; Capture aiid Death 

 gJ^ that General; Enterprises of the To'qiii Cayan» 

 cura and his Son A^angoniel ; iMnding of the Eng- 

 lish in Chili ; Operations of the Toqui Cadeguala, 



AS soon as information was received in Spain of 

 the death of Quiroga, the king sent out as governor 

 to Chili Don Alonzo Sctoeia} or, with six hundred 

 regular troops, who, in 1583, landed at Buenos 



