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according to contemporary writers, who arc satisfied 

 with mentioning them in general terms, he was con- 

 sidered as the darUng child of fortune. 



Uiloa, more a victim to the mortification and anx- 

 iety caused by the successes of Lientur than to 

 sickness, died on the 20dl of November, 1620, 

 and was, according to the established custom, suc- 

 ceeded by the eldest of the auditors, Christopher de 

 la Cerda, a native of Mexico. For the better de- 

 fence of the shores of the Bio-bio, he built there the 

 fort which still goes by his name ; he had also a 

 number of encounters with Lientur, and during the 

 short period of his government, which continued but 

 a year, was constantly occupied in protecting the 

 Spanish settlements. His successor, Pedro Sores 

 Ulloa, continued the war with similar fortune, until 

 his death, which happened on the 11th of Septem- 

 ber, 1624. He was succeeded by his brother-in-law, 

 Francisco Alava, who retained the office only six 

 months. 



Lientur at length advanced in years, and fatigued 

 with his continual exertions, resigned, in 1625, the 

 chief command to Putapichion, a young man, of a 

 character for courage and conduct very similar to 

 his own, who had passed the early part of his youth 

 among the Spaniards, as a slave to one Diego Trux- 

 illo. The Spaniards also possessed at the same time 

 a commander of uncommon valour and military 

 skill : this was Don Louis de Cordova, lord of Car- 

 pió, and nephew to the viceroy of Peru, by whom 

 he was abundantly supplied with warlike stores and 

 soldiers, and ordered, in the name of the court, not 



