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THE PERUVIAN WAR 323 About the same time a mutiny broke out among the Peruvian troops at Chancay which had to be quelled. During the months of August and September active efforts were made to hasten peace measures, and the troops in several districts of Peru recognized Igiesias as lawful president. On September i8th, three thou- sand opposition troops (Monteneros) were defeated at Huancayo, two hundred of them being killed. On the 2nd of October, 1883, eight hundred and seven- ty Peruvian officers availed themselves of Lynch's invi- tation to come in, and submitted to the Chilean authori- ties. Puno was occupied, and on the gth Casnia de- clared for peace. On the 20th, the treaty of peace was signed between Chile and Peru. On the 24th General Igiesias was recognized in Peru as president regenerador. On the 29th, Arequipa, which had so long held out, surrendered, and Montero fled to Bolivia, where, how- ever, he was not very enthusiastically received, and soon after went on to Buenos Ayres and afterward to Europe. He resigned whatever supposititious author- ity he possessed to Caceres. On November gth, the Chilean army of occupation had been concentrated at Arequipa, and the Bolivian army, or what remained of it, at Oruro. But on this day the Bolivian envoy, Guijarro, quitted Tacna and went to confer with the Chilean envoy, Lillo, with reference to peace. On December nth, the treaty between Bolivia and Chile was signed. The Indians of the interior, however, led by Caceres, who spoke their language, kept up skir- mishes and devastation until the close of the year. By the treaty Chile obtained from Bolivia the lat- ter's seacoast, including the port of Cobija, twenty per cent of Bolivian port customs, privileges for construct- ing railroads into the interior, and other concessions. By the terms of the treaty between Peru and Chile