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they fd.Ued

Valdivia, ·

ant·-main?ained

Tears afterwards.

a War

Fifiy

manner how they killeq

Vafdivia,

was after the co¡ning ofthi1fecond

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Advice reliUed 'in cfifferent ways by rh'efe rhree

Jndian?,

becaufe that-none

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tfíem were prefent at his Death: One faid, that

Lautaru

finding his Maíl:er

tied

a Tree, reviling and reproaching him firíl:, faid, Why is chis Traytor fuf_.

fered co live ? and wich that killed him wich

his

own hand : Another faid, That

Valdivia

before he died, defired firíl:

[peak with his Servant

Lautaru,

hoping

by bis

~e~~s

~l!d interceffiqn tQ fave,_bis,life,:_

B~c :ihe

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ser.t~!n ince¡Iig~ce

hávei

1sith1s,

Xi~a:nan'0ld Ca,ptam óeat•fos,~fa~ns out w1th

club, -per,l!laps

it m1ghc be thwOl_d;~apqiin whq -~aoaged a!Pcp~s affa~; ~or it is_ faid,_ ,t~á~,f(e

Jdlled him·,1y·it9ol!~1any par~y, le~ h1s people trnat~ng w1th hit?,, ano behev1fi~

·th~ ,promi[es -and-vows wh1ch th1s unformnace G0vernour m1gh~ make w~1IU:'he

was1tied to ,f'Tree;•and in apprehenftons ofDeath, '3/hen he -might eaftly,Artrcl~

-on

the

coríditions,of: life to leave cheir Countl'~y;,arid depare ch~rice with

alt

hls

-Pedple, ánd S@mldié·s1 .:md n~ver to return ·agai~ ; noc truíl:i~g, as

fay_,

rlt fh~

credulous humour,o6

fos

people, whom he permved hearkenmg to che prom1fes

_and ¡,rows·of

Paldizli4,

-.he

refolurely paffed through the midíl: of them; ancl·

½'ích,~

dub dafhed out

bis

rain

s, putting an end to the parly which'his Souldiers-ente\J–

.tained with him; ,and,therewith turne~ cowards

them, faying, Are·ye

fo.fo6liíh

.and d'edulous as to' éruíhto che wdrds ofavanquifhed and captívated ílave? W·ha:t

will."not a'Maniin hiscondition•pmmife, and

ho-w

Iitclé

will

lie peí-form atr~1. &e

hach obtained bis liberty ?

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But

the circumíl:anc!=S of his Death were reported'in another

mariner by a

'sP4-~ ,

niard,'

who was a Native of

Trt-íxillo,

called

Francifcp de Riem,

\:vho was a

Cap~

tain Jhen in

,chili,

and,Mafl:er of fome

Jndians

in that Kingdpm ; who comiµg ~o

PerH

Cometilne af~ei-lthat fatal difa{lure, reported, rhat the

lndians

paffed the

Hignc

· afrer nhisViéh>ry with-Dances and Merriment; and at the ~nd of eve~y Dan,&

· they

..cut

offa piece of'the flefh of

Valdivitt,

and another of che Prieíl:1s, ('they'

be:.

ing.both t~ed t9gether) _""'.hich rhey br?ile9 before th~ir faces, and tpen eat

it'

dunng which rnne,'

Vald1v1a

confefiing h1s Sms to the Pneíl:, they both expiredJ.ó

that condition.

Ir ismore probable, that after the Captain liad kille.d him w.itp

his cluB, that the

lndians

mighc eat him, no_t that this

fort

Indians

delighted'in

, humane flefh, bue onely to vent their rage and fpleen on him, who had been·

th~

Auchour and Origi'nal of ali the ílavery and _mifery they had endureq;

From that t_ime the

lndians

took up a cuílome of fighting·with the

Spaniar,ds

i-ó

feveral Squadrons ot' DiviGons, as

Aloi:ifo de Erz.ilfa

in the firíl: Canto of

b;,s

Araucana

repolts ; and th:it after this rebellion, they maintained the War

years

Úntill the end of the year

s- s-

3 ;

at which time

D. Sebajlian de Cajlil/a

began hi~

. rebellion in the

Villa_

Plata,

and

Potoji,

which are in rhe Kingdom of

Pm ,,

and

FrancifcoHernandéz. Giron

began bis in

Coz.co

Thus have

as clearly as

could, r

elated

the panicularsof the Fight and Deatn

of che Governour

D. Pe__arode Valdivia,

as it

s written and related in

PerH

thofe who liv~d in

Chili;

it ·being referred to every Man's judgment ro beÚev~

·that report whtch he eíl:eems moíl: probable: the which Story I have amicipated ·

and reponed out ofits due place and time, in regard it is the moíl: memorable and

notorious paífage that ever happenec! in the

Jndies,

which

would not omit ro de–

fcribe, leíl:

Oiould have had no other occafton which mighc lead me to a farcher

.dikourfe of

Chili,

or leíl:

might have had time or life to ex·cend chis Hiílory

that period

'of

years in which che

Sp11niard.

became abfoluce Maíl:ers of thac King-

dom.

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