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the mountains of the Andes. This service not only 

 obtained him the government of Chili, but also the 

 princess Clara Beatrix Coya in marriage, the only 

 daughter and heiress of the Inca Sayri Tupac. He 

 arrived at Valparaiso in 1593, with a respectable 

 body of troops, and immediately proceeded to San- 

 tiago, where he was received with every testimony of 

 joy by the citizens. 



CHAPTER VI. 



T/ie To^ui Faillamachu kills Loyola the GovernoVy 

 and destroys all the Spanish Settlements in Aran- 

 cania. 



After the death of Paillaeco, the Araucanians ap- 

 pointed to the chief command the hereditary Toqui 

 of the second Uthalmapu, called Faillamachu, aman 

 of a very advanced age, but of wonderful activity. 

 Fortune, commonly supposed not to be propitious 

 to the old, so far favoured his enterprises, that he 

 surpassed all his predecessors in military glory, and 

 had the singular felicity of restoring his country to 

 its ancient state of independence. No sooner was 

 he invested with the supreme power, than he appoint- 



