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I04 A HISTORY OF CHILE and many less important engagements, which do not materially differ, either in detail or result, from the many battles we have already described. Putapichion was defeated and killed in a battle at the port of Alvar- rado. Quepuantu was next in command and sought to rally the Araucanians to a charge after the fall of the leader, but in vain; the army fled, pursued for a dis- tance of six miles by the victorious Spaniards. Thus the war continued during the whole long period of Laso's government, little quarter being shown on either side. Each nation was so decimated that a treaty of peace became possible under Laso's successor, Don Francisco de Zuniga, Marquis of Baides. Quepuantu, who succeeded Putapichion as toqui, was surprised at his home by a force of four hundred Spaniards, and, his party being slain, he himself was killed in a combat he had accepted with Loncomallu, chief of the Spanish auxiliaries. He was succeeded by Loncomilla, who in the following year shared the fate of his predecessor. Guenucolquin became leader and was slain in an engagement with a Spanish force of six hundred men; Curanteo once routed the enem}', but was killed in a subsequent bat- tle ; Curimilla was also killed — a sure fatality seemed to attend the axe of Araucanian leadership. In 1638 a Dutch squadron, consisting of four ships of war, made a descent upon the Chilean coast, but the vessels were scattered by a storm. The crews sought assistance from the natives of the islands of Mocha and Talca, but were attacked and killed, as the Indians were suspicious of the intentions of all Europeans. In a second attempt five years afterward the Marquis of Mancura sailed into Valdivia harbor with ten warships to give battle to the Dutch, but the invaders had gone; he then fortified the harbor. An