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the vessels at anchor in the harbour, on board of 

 which many had taken refuge, who only effected their 

 escape by immediately setting sail. After this he 

 returned in triumph to join Millacalquin, to whom 

 he had entrusted the guard of the Bio- bio, with a 

 booty of two million of dollars, all the cannon, and 

 upwards of four hundred prisoners. 



Ten days after the destruction of Valdivia, Col. 

 Francisco Campo arrived there from Peru with a' 

 reinforcement of three hundred men, but finding it 

 in ashes, he endeavoured, though ineffectually, toin- 

 troduce those succours into the cities of Osorno, 

 Villarica and Imperial. Amidst so many misfor- 

 tunes, an expedition of five ships of war from Holland 

 arrived in 1600 upon the coast of Chili, which plun- 

 dered the island of Chiloe, and put the Spanish gar- 

 rison to the sword. Nevertheless, the crew of the 

 commodore having landed in the little island of Talca, 

 or Santa Maria, was repulsed with the loss of twenty- 

 three of their men by the Araucanians who dwelt 

 there, and who probably supposed them to be Span- 

 iards. 



Quiñones, disgusted with a war which was far 

 from promising a fort^inate issue, solicited and ob- 

 tained his dismission from the government. He was 

 succeeded by the old quarter- master, Garcia Ra- 

 mon, of whom much was expected from his expe- 

 nence and long acquaintance with the enemy. But 

 that very knowledge induced him to act on the de- 

 fensive, rather than hazard that part of the kingdom 

 which was still subject to Spain, although he had re- 

 ceived a regiment of select troops from Lisbon, un- 

 4er the command of Don Francisco Ovalle, father to 



