. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. 6\6 AMERICA. Y Chap. Dcfcription of Arauco, the Fort in Tumi, where thofe in the Garrifon, unable to defend themfelves,' went vaWvia ta- to TucapeL and from thence to Arauco, to Settle there. ValdiYia marching with three ken i nioner, * " .. ... ^, *? and cruciiy hundred Men to the Caftle in Tucapel, was fo fiercely aflaulted at the River Leto, put to death * ' ' by the indies chat all his Men were kill'd, and he himfelf being taken Prifoner, had melted Gold pour'd down his Throat: One Boy onely efcaping, brought the news to thofe in Garrifon in the Fort Arauco, who fled to La Conception, as thofe from Turen to Not long after the Lieutenant Francifcode VxUagra went with a hundred and fixty Soldiers to %acpuetta, a Promontory againft the South Sea in Arauco, to take Re- venge for the Death of his General Valdma ; but he alfo had like to have followed the fame fate, for he left ninety fix Men behind him, and with much ado recovered La Conception : By which means the vi&orious Chilefes came to be fo much fear'd, that the Spaniards forfook theTotirns %ica} St. Jagp, and Qmfines, and fortifi'd them- felves ftrongly in hnperiaL Concerning Jrauco, it is a fmall County, twenty Leagues long and (even broad. The Inhabitants thereof are ftrangcly valiant. thofe that inhabit the Mountains are calPd Tulcbes,and are generall
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