304 / 1060
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.
Koyal
Commentar ·es.
How they- kjtled V
aldi
vi
,
and maintained
a
War
Fifty
Tears afterwards.
T
HE manner how they killed
Valdivia,
was
after the coming of th. (econd
Ad
i
related
in
diffetenr
'ays by thefe three
Jndian.J,
becau(e that none
of
them were prefent at hi Death:
ne faid, that
Lauta-ru
finding his
Mafrer
tied to a Tree, reviling and reproaching him firfl:, faid, Why
i
hi
ycor
fuf–
fered
t0
live
?
and \\
ith
that killed him ' ich
h·
O\\i
n hand : Another faid,
That
·
Valdivia,
before he died, defired firfi to fpeak with
hi
ervant
Lautan-1,
hoping
by his mean and interceffi n to fave hi life
:
But the moll: certain
int
llig
ce
\ e
l
a
e,
i
this · That
an
Old
aptain beat hi
brain
out
wirh
a
dub,
e
s
. it
might be that Old Captain who managed all thi a air;
fi
r
it
fi
id,·
t~
e
killed ,him without
any
parly~
lefl:
hi
people nearing
ith hlm,
and
eJievfti;}tjU
the
p
omifes nd
O\\S
which rh·
unfortunate
vern
ur might·
make
ilff
·he
'\as
ti~d
to
a
ree~
and
in
apprehenftons of · eath, \ hen he migt':it ea[tly
Article
o
he condirions
f
life to leave their
otincrey
>
nd depart thence with
a
l
hls
) ople, and ouldier , and never to return
again~
not nulling, a I
fay,
ro
the
ere
ul u
humour
hi
people, \vhom he per ei ed hearkenin
t0
the
promtfes
and vmv of
Y-aldivi,1,
he refolutely paifed through the midfl:
f
thetn, and
'ith a
_ lu ·dafhed out
his
brains,
utting an end ro rhe
parly
which
hi
ouldiers
eriter–
. tai
d
with
hitn;
and therewith turned
toward
them, faying,
Are
ye
fo
foolifh
and
· dulous a
to
tru11:
to the words of a vanquiil1ed and ca
ivated ila
e
?
r
l1at
''i 'l
n
t
Mao
in
his
condition promife,
and hm
little
will
he perform
after
he
I1ath obtained his liberry
?
But
th
circumfl:ances of
his
eath
were reported in anoth
r nan
er
y
a
pa–
n· trd)
\\ho
as
a
1
ative of
Truxillo,
called
FraHGifco
de Ri
-ro1,
who was a Ca -
in th n in
hili,
and
Mafl:er
o~
me
J11dianJ
in that Kingdom;
vvho
coming
t
_
P
cr1;1.
f metime after that fatal difafiure, re orted, that the
Indians
fled the rlighr
ft
r, thi
' i
oq \\ ith Dance and Meniment; and at the end of e ery
anee
they ut
ff
a piece
f
the
'11
of
PaldiviA,
and another of e Priefi s, (
they
b~i1
both tied rogether) whi h they broiled bef< ie their
fi
es, nd hen
e
t
it?
1
in
v
hich time,
Valdivia
onfc mg his
in to be Priefr,
hey
both e pired
~µ
that c ndition.
It
is more probable, that frer the
aptain
had
killed J1im '
i~h
•
·j
lub,
that the
Indians
might eat
1
im, not tha thi fort of
Jndiat;.r
delight~d
J
Immane
flel
1,
but onely to ent their rage and
fi
leen n him, ' ho had beeh
rI1
. Autl ur and Original of
all
the fla ery and mi ery they had endured.
rom that time the
Jndian1
took
up a cufi me
f
fighting '
·ith
he
paninrds.
in
fe eral quadmns
r Divi!ions, as
.
Alonfo de
,..... ti/a
in the firfi
anto
f
h~s
An:umma
r por
>
and that aft r thi rebelli n, they maintained the War
49
yea1·~,
mill the end of the year
1
5 3 ;
at which time
D.
ebajlian.
de
c
rjlilla
began
his
rebeJlion
in
the
Villa
de
la Plata,
and
Poto.ftwhich are in the Kingdom of
Pem,
and
Fr«• r:f(co
Hernande~
Giron
began his i
nCofCo.
Thu hav I, as
clearly
as I could related the particulars of the fjght .and Death
q[
the Go
rnour
.
Pedro
de Valdivia,
a it was written and related in
PerJ1
b)
thofC "ho li ed
in
'hili;
it being
1
eferred
to
every Man,
judgment
t
beli
0
\'e
that.
l
epot
t
whi h
I
e elleems rnofi probable: the which
rory
I
have
anrici~
ated,
-and r
1
t d out
fit
due place and time, in regard it
i
the moll: mem rable and
notori u paffage that ever happened in the
Jndie1,
which
I
w
uld not mit
to
de–
f<
ribe,,
1-11 I
OlOnld have had no other occafion
whi
h might lead me
t
fc
nher
d1fc
urfe
f
Chili,
or lefi
I
might have had time or life toe 'tend chi
Hill
ry
ro
tha~
)
r~
d of
y
ars in whi h the
p11mard1
became abfoluce Ma(ters
f
that
l<1ng-
m.