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Royal Commentaries.
A
_Relation of
the Lofs
and Deflruflion of the
City
of
Val–
divia
in
Chili,
which
happened on
W
dn
fday
the
24th
of
November,
1
599.
A
Bout break of
day
five thoufand
Jndian1,
belonging
to
the parts adjacent
" and
to the Divi.fions of the
Tmperial, Pica
and
Purem,
whereof
thr~
'' thoufand were Horfe, and the reft Foot, having (as was faid) fevency fire–
" Arms,
and above
two
hundred Men armed
ith Coats of Male, a!Iaulted
'
the City , furprifing
it
wichout the
leafr allarm ,
by the guidance
of
treache...
cc
rous
pies belonging to the fame Rlace.
They divided thernfelves into
tnall
'' Bodies of twency four or twenty five
in
a Company, for
chey
knew that the
"
Spaniard.t
lay fecure, and fleeping
in
their Houfes, and that their Corps of
'' Guard were but four Centinels, and that two onely wem the rounds:
The~
" conGdered alfo
that
the
Spaniards
were elevated with the fucceiS they had
cc
had
in
the two Incurfions lately made, when
in
we fpace oft my days
they
" had the formne to cake and demollih a ortrelS which the
Indians
had erected
tc
on the fide of the marHh Grounds of
Paparlen,
with
fu
great a £laughter of
"
~hem,
that the
Spaniards
believed, that
in
the cornpaf of eight l.eagues round,
'' there was not an
Indian
that
could appear. Howfoe er having bribed rhe
'' pies which the
Spaniard1
entertaineq amongll: them, they fucceeded in rhe
" moll: notable Plot that ever was defigned by
filly
Barbarians
j
for they
ich
"
gr~a~
quiet and filence
encol!lp~{fed
every Houfe with
~op~e
fufficient to
deal
"
ith thofe wh ch were w1thm, for they \'er well adv1fed of the num..
'' bers whic& dwelt in ic; and fetting Guard
a~
the enrran e to every Street,
" they
affailed the unhappy City, giving fire to the Houfes; and having feized on
the Gates
j
the Inhabitants could neither reli v
ne the oth r , nor
yet
make
'' their efcape
by
flight; fo that in the fpace
t ·oh ur
>
they
had defiroyed all
cc
the people
by
ire and
ord, and poffi
ffi
d th
fel
the orr, and Guns
'' in it, there being no eople wichin to d fend
it.
Tho e chat
ere killed and
'' taken,
ere about four hundred
Spaniara1,
of Men, W men and
hildren,
'' They facked and plundered
tO
th value of three hundred thoufand
ieces of
" Eight, nor did any
thi
g remain \
hi
h ' as not either burnt, or laid defi lace..
'' Tne
hips
of
Pallano, ri!Lan-oel,
and of on
D.
Di&go d
RqyM,
were let run
:I
cc
drift down the Stream, ro whicH fome
opl made their fcape
by
the mean
'' df
Canoes which lay by the water fide, other"\ ife none had remained ro ha e
" been the Meffengers of this fatal News. The
Indians
had been provoked ro
cc
this cruelry
in
revenge of thofe eople whom the
paniard.t
had flain
in
t
o
" late Incurfions; having fold their Wi es and
hildren to Merchants, who
" rranfported them into foreign Countries; and
fo
fi
nftble were they of the
'' llavery they had endured for
fifty
years pall:, that though they had been bap–
" tized, and entertained Priefis
co
infiruet them
in
the
hrHH n Dofu.ine,
yet
''- th firfl: thing they did was to barn their Tern les and with facrilegious hands
'' to throw the Images of aims from the Altars.
" Ten days after chis unhap
y
fate the good
olonel
Francifco
Ml
Campo
ar-
" rived in the Port of ch·
icy
ith the fuccour of three hundred Men, which
Jr
the Governour of
Peru
had feot thither, or the relief of that, and the other di·
" fire!Ied
ities :
It wa
b·
f(
rrune
t
recov r a
n and a Daughter of
his
" \l\'hich were boch
hildren, ' hi
h
being committed
to
che char_ge of
his
iller–
'' in-law, had been taken, and carri d a ay captives, when the City was facked
' and
1
id defolatl!; the miferable
rate of\\ hich, when he
fi
w, he
with
great
'' Rage and Ref< lution landed his Men, marching with all expedition to relieve
' ' the Cities of
Oforno,
Villarrica,
and the unhap
y
Ymperial;
from which places
" they had received no news
in
the fpace of a
·hole year, but that they had en·
" dured a
iege of
fo
long a rime, and \Yere alm fl: all fami!hed and dead,
ha-
ving no other
fufi
nance than the Jelh of th ir dead Horfes, and when tbofe
T
failed