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At the Entrance into the Court of the Houfe or Palace of 

 the Oidor, or Judge, who commonly fiipplies the Place of 

 a Governor, they have mounted two Four-Pounders near 

 the Corps du Garde, which makes the Left-Wing of the 

 Court. This Want of Fortifications is not made good by 

 Men and able Officers. 

 Military Co- The Maeftre de Camp, or Colonel, is a general Officer 

 mrnment. f or a |i Martial Affairs without the Town. He is com- 

 monly one of the Inhabitants, who has no Experience, 

 whom thePrefident of Chili appoints for three Years: Un- 

 der him is a Lieutenant-General to thePrefident, a Major, 

 and Captains. The Troops he commands are not nume- 

 rous,- reckoning only the Whites, they cannot make a 

 Body, of above 2000 Men, ill arm'd, both of the Town 

 and Country about it > whereof there are two Companies 

 of Foot, the reft being all Horfe. They were all in the 

 •King's Pay, who allows for maintaining of 3 5 00 Men, as 

 well for the Defence of the Town, as of the advanc'd Pofts 

 and Garrifons, which the Spaniards call Prefidios : But that 

 Pay has faiFd for r'4 Years paft, and all Things are there 

 in Diforder, the Soldiers having been obliged to difperfe 

 themfelves up and down to get their Living ; fo that if the 

 Indians fliould have a Mind to revolt, they would find the 

 Spaniards defencelefe, and, as it .were, a-fleep, becaufe 

 ^chanced *h c y are a f Peace. However, they have feveral little 

 ■Pofts. Forts, or little Intrenchments, in which they have fome 

 Pieces of Cannon, and fome of the Militia and Indian 

 Friends, when they think fit. 



The fartheft advanced of alUhofe Pofts, is that of Pur en, 

 if Leagues beyond the River of Biobio. .A little more in- 

 ward is that of Nafcimento, or the Nativity, and towards 

 the Coaft of Arauco, the Walls whereof are almoft quite 

 fallen. In this there are fix Pieces of Cannon, twelve 

 Pounders, and four Four-Pounders, all without Carriages. 

 Then along the River, is that of S. Peter, on this Side the 

 Biobio, three Leagues from La Conception. Higher up, 

 are Talquemahuida, S. Chriflopher, S. Joanna, and TumbeL 



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