The Araucanians Or Notes of a Tour Among the Indian Tribes of Southern Chili
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Convinced that without additional force fiirther con- quest would be impossible, he dispatched to Peru two officers, Monroy and Miranda, with six companions, and an escort of thirty horse, to report to Pizarro the straitened condition of the Chilian expedition, and to beg reinforcements. They proceeded without difficulty as far as Copiapo, where they were attacked by the chief of the district and completely routed. Of the whole party only Monroy and Miranda escaped. They too would have TBEACHEB...Y OF THE SPANIARDS. 139 perished, for they were sentenced to death, and had actually been bound to the stake, when they were rescued by the interposition of their conqueror's wife, who begged that they might be spared, unbound them with her own hands, and tenderly dressed their woimds. This kindness was repaid by an act of the blackest ingratitude. While riding out one day in company with the son of their bene&ctress, Monroy fell suddenly upon the young chieftain, mortally wotmding him with a pon- iard, while Miranda, turning upon the (^cer in com- mand of the guard, wrenched from his hand the lance which he bore, and breaking through the ranks of the terrified escort, they fled.
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