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CHAPTER VIH. 



COMPRISES A PERIOD OF FOURTEEN YEARS, 

 FROM 1618 TO 1632. 



Daring Enterprises of the Toquis Lientur and 

 Putapichion, 



LONCOTHEGUA having resignea, the chief 

 command of the Araucanian armies was conferred 

 upon Lientur. The military expeditions of this Toqui 

 were always so rapid and unexpected, that the Spa- 

 niards gave him the appellation of the wizard. He 

 appointed Levipillan his lieutenant-general, by whona 

 he was perfectly seconded in the execution of all 

 his designs. Notwithstanding the Bio-bio was lined 

 with centineis and fortresses, he always contrived 

 some means of passing and repassing it without ex- 

 periencing any loss. His first enterprise was the cap- 

 ture of four hundred horses intended to remount the 

 Spanish cavalry. He next ravaged the province of 

 Chilian, and the Corregidor having marched to meet 

 him, he entirely defeated and slew him, together 

 with two of his sons, and several of the magistrates 

 of the city. 



Five days after this action he proceeded towards 

 St. Philip of Austria, or Yumbel, with six hundred 



