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tive to the establishment of peace and the promotion 

 of religion. Immediately on his arrival he hastened 

 to the frontiers, and communicated to the Arauca- 

 nians by means of some prisoners whom he brought 

 with him from Peru, the commission with which he 

 was intrusted by the court. Aillavilu, who at that 

 time held the chief command, paid little attention to 

 this information, cojisidering it as merely a story in- 

 vented for the purpose of deceiving and surprising 

 him ; but he soon after dying or resigning his 

 office, his successor Ancanamon thought proper to 

 inquire into the truth of the report. With this 

 view he directed the Ulmen Carampangui to con- 

 verse with Valdivia, and learn his proposals in an 

 assembly of the Ulmenes. 



The missionary, on being invited by that officer, 

 repaired under the protection of the Uimen Lanca- 

 milla to Nancu, the principal place in the province of 

 Catiray, where, in the presence of fifty of those 

 chiefs, he made known his business and the substance 

 of his négociation, read the royal dispatches, and en- 

 tered into a long explanation of the motives of his 

 voyage, which concerned the general good of their 

 souls. The assembly thanked him for his exertions, 

 and promised to make a favourable report to the 

 general. 



Carampangui insisted on accompanying Valdivia 

 to Conception, where he met v/ith the governor, 

 who dispatched the letter of the king to Ancana- 

 mon by Pedro Melendez, one of his ensigns, with 

 a request that he would come to Paicavi, in or- 

 der to confer with liim upon the preliminaries of the 



