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there in search of them with ten ships of war, for- 

 tified the harbour, and particularly the island, which 

 has since borne the titular name of his family. 



On the termination of the sixth year of his pacific 

 government, B¿\ydes, was recalled by the courtj^and 

 Don Martin Muxica appointed in his place. He 

 succeeded in preserving the kingdom in that state 

 of tranquillity in which he found it, no other com^ 

 motion occurring, during his government, but that 

 produced by a violent earthquake, which on the 8th 

 of May 1647, destroyed part of the city of Santiago. 

 The fortune of his successor, Don Antonio Acugna, 

 was very different. During his government the 

 war was excited anew between the Spaniards and 

 Araucanians, but contemporary writers llave left us 

 no account of the causes that produced it. 



Clentaru, the hereditary Toqui of Lauquemapu, 

 being in 1655 unanimously elected general, signa- 

 lized his first campaign by the total defeat of the 

 Spanish army, commanded by the sergeant-major, 

 who fell in the action, together wdth all his men. 

 This victory was followed by the capture of the for- 

 tresses of Arauco, Colcura, St. Pedro, Talcama- 

 vida, and St. Rosendo. The next year the Arau- 

 canian general crossed the Bíí)-bio, compleatly de- 

 feated Acugna, the governor, in the plains of Yumbel, 

 destroyed the forts of St. Christopher, and of the 

 Estancia del Rey, and burned the city of Chilian. 



I regret much the want of materials for this part 

 of my work, as all the memoirs of which I have hi- 

 therto availed myself terminate at this period ; 

 even the successes oî Clentaru being only meii-^ 



