Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . p II., and in 1554 accompanied Philip to Eng-land on the occasion of the latters marriage toQueen Mary. While he was in London news was re-ceived of the rebellion of the Araucanians, a bravenation of Chili, and Ercilla at once joined the ex-pedition against them under Alderete. He high-ly distinguished himself in the campaign thatfollowed, takingpart in seven bat-tles and manyother fierce en-counters. He af-terward accom-panied Hurtadode Mendoza tothe conquest ofChiloe, near thestraits of Magel-lan, and with tenfollowers, on 28Feb., 1558, pene-trat
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . p II., and in 1554 accompanied Philip to Eng-land on the occasion of the latters marriage toQueen Mary. While he was in London news was re-ceived of the rebellion of the Araucanians, a bravenation of Chili, and Ercilla at once joined the ex-pedition against them under Alderete. He high-ly distinguished himself in the campaign thatfollowed, takingpart in seven bat-tles and manyother fierce en-counters. He af-terward accom-panied Hurtadode Mendoza tothe conquest ofChiloe, near thestraits of Magel-lan, and with tenfollowers, on 28Feb., 1558, pene-trated inland toa point that hadbeen reached byno other Euro-peans, leaving astatement of thatfact in verse, cutin the bark of atree. After tak-ing possession ofthose regions inthe name of the Spanish monarch, he returnedto the city of Imperial, and, being suspected ofjoining in a mutiny, was condemned to be be-headed, but was reprieved and afterward at Lima he heard of the rebellion andcruelties of Lope de Aguirre in Venezuela, and. ERIC ERICSSON 363 reached Panama in 1561, on his way to fightagainst him; but Agiiirre had just been deposed and killed, and Ercilla, after a long and dangerousillness, returned to Spain in 1502. After travellingextensively through Europe, he entered the serviceof the Emperor Rudolph, of Austria,, as one of hischamberlains, but about 1580 returned to Madrid,where he passed the rest of his life in retirement,almost forgotten, and in extreme poverty. WhenErcilla began his seven years campaign in Chili heconceived the idea of making it the subject of apoem; and in the intervals of active duty/ mostlyat night-time, he composed the first part of LaAraucana, writing his verses on scraps of paper,and often on bits of leather. The third and lastpart of the poem he finished after his return toSpain. La Araucana is one of the most cele-brated of Spanish epics, and one of the best everwritten in any language. It not only possesses themerit of pure d
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