303 / 1060
BooK
~II.
Royal
Comn:z~ntarie.t~
gave
Command
to
his
Souldiers
to retreat ,
P,afftng
the word
frill
as they retired,
that they
iliould make
for that
narrow
pafs ,
iliIJ
turning
upon the Enemy , atid
making head againfi: them, changing the ftate of their cafe from an offenfive, co
a defeofive
Fight.
CH AP.
XXII1.
The
Indians
1Jverco111e
the
Spaniards
hy
the
Treachery-
of
an
· ) ,Indian.
r
'
'
.
~: '/(;:
l
Certain
Indian,
who
from a
Boy had
been bred up
in
the
Family
of
t~e
Gq.
·I1
vemotir
Valdivia,
whofe
Chrillian Name was
Philip,
but
by
the
Jndi~ni
called
L,iutaru,
being che Son of a
Cacique :
This
Fellow
being
more biaffed
by
the
natural
affeC\1on
which he bore to
liis
Councrey,
than
by hls ove to God, or
Jidelity to hisMaller ;
fo foon
as he heard the word
given
to the
Spaniards
to re–
treat,
he
infiantly reported
it
to the
Indians,
having
the
knowledge of
both
Lan...
guages, and
callea
out
to
chell1
not,to content
themfelves
with
this flight
and ad–
vantage, in
letting
them
go free,
but
to run and poffefs the
nanow
paffige, .
anti
' J?revent their entrance
into
it,
in
the
which
they did
now place all the
hopt?S
of
their fecurity and prPteetion; wherefore cried he fiill ont,
Ma4e ufe
of
this
advlffl–
tage, 'Which
u
'fOW
giv~nyou
for the
Lihert1
of
ynur
Cou~trey,
a.ntlr.efcll.e
it
from deftr11..Cfidn
bJ the
bloud
of
theje
T1?iwes an&J
TraJtors.
And havmg
fa1d
thefe words , that
he
ll)ight
encoura~e
them
by
his Example, he took up a Lance from the ground, and
placed himfelf
m the front of them to fight againfi:
the
Spaniards.
The Ol
Ca~t.ain,
who was the firft ProjeClor of
this
way of Fighting, obfer-
·
vi!lg
the way
~hich
the
Spaniarth
to©k, foon appreh<mded their defign by
the hint
whlch
Lautaru
had _given them; to circumvent which, he difpeeded a\l\
ay
two
frefu
Squadrons of thofe
which
had not as yet fought, to haften with the bell: or–
der they were able
to the narrow
pafs, and there, at
the
r
entrance of
it,
to
keep
their
fiation 6rm untill the refi came up ;
which
having done, he parfued
the
Spaniard.t
with
the other
Squadrons,
fiill
plying
them
with
ftefu
bodies of Souldi–
-ers, fo
that
they
did not
permit
them one moment of refpite, always killing and
}>urfuing
them.
untill
they
came
to
the very mouth and
entrance
of
the
narrow
P-aiS ;
where when
they
came, and
that
the
Spaniard;
found
it
already poffeffed by
the
Enemy,
they
began todefpair of all
hopes
to efcape
Death; which to avoid,
no
means appearing,
they
called
on
the Name of
Cnrifi
and the Bleifed Virgie ,
and of
fuch
Saints for which
they
had the greareil devotion.
The
Indians
perceiving chat both the Men and Horfes were
wholly
fRent
a0d
ti–
red, came in upon chem
in
an entire body, and
1
5'
or
zo
of
them
rogether fell
on
one
pocr Horfe,
fome catching
him by
the legs, fome
by
the
tail,
others
by the
mane,
w
hilfi others
with their great dubs knocked both Man
and Horfe down,
killing
them
with the greatefi cruelty
and rage
imaginable. The Gavemour
Pedro
tie
PA!divia,
and a Priefi that
was
with him,
they took alive, ana
tied
them
to rrees,
Untill
they
had
difpatched all
the refi:, that they
might
in
cool
bloud confider with
~hat .Death
they might
puni(h them.
Thefe
particulars
came by the
fecond
Ad–
vice
from
Chili.
to
Peru,
being fent
by
fome
Indian
friends, -who
were
prefent
in the
Battel,
thr~e
of
which
made their efcape, having
by the
darkneiS of the
Night hid
themfelves
m
the
Thickets of
a Wood,
untill
fuch
time as
the
Indian;
retiring
from
that
place
te
celebrate
their
Vittory with
joy and n-iumph,
gave
rhem opportunity
to
~fcape
; who being
Men
well acquainted with the ways, and
more
faithfull to
thett Mafiers
than
L1tHtar11,
returned again
to the
Span;ard1,
bringing
che
fatal
new~
of
the lofs
of
Pedro de
Yaldivi11,
and all
his
companions.