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fortune might present to them for pillage." To 

 send a force capable of ensuring protection to 

 us was not in their power. This party was ac- 

 companied by the Cacique Pinoleo, his wife and 

 daughter, with an escort of several Indians, all 

 mounted ; he presented the captain with a small 

 ox, supposing us to be straitened for provi- 

 sions. We offered them a little rum and water, 

 and biscuit ; and, after a long interview, the 

 cacique and party retired to the tent of Rafael 

 Lobo, and eventually to the hills. Pinoleo is a 

 fine powerful-looking man, but understood to be 

 very absolute and passionate. The captain had, 

 in thanking him for his present, regretted his 

 having nothing to offer him in return for his 

 kindness ; which caused him to rise, and, with 

 great vehemence ot expression, in his Indian 

 language, to declaun against the supposition that, 

 in our condition he should seek for a return. 

 Pinoleo is the brotner of Colissi, the cacique, 

 who, with the aid of 100 carbineers of Arauco, 

 was fighting and keeping m check Cadin, the 

 hostile cacique of Jucapel and Tirua. He was 

 the most civilised-looking of the caciques which 

 we had occasion to meet. He wore a cloth cap 

 with a gold-lace band ; had a very large set of 



