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 CHAPTER VIII GENERAL UPRISING OF THE ARAUCANIANS VISCARRA, QUIN- ONES, RAMON, LUIS DE VALDIVIA, TALAVERANNO, ULLOA — DESCENT OF THE DUTCH In 1594 Loyola crossed the Biobio and founded a new town, which, in honor of his wife, he called Coya. This was in the vicinity of Angol and near the gold mines of Kilacoyan, both of which places the for- tresses of Coya were intended to protect. Magistrates were appointed, churches erected, monasteries founded, and two citadels, called respectively Jesus and Chive- cura, were constructed in such favorable positions as to commmand both shores of the Biobio. In the following year Paillamachu ordered Lonco- thegua, one of his officers, to take the fort of Jesus. This task had been nearly accomplished when the brave captain was killed ; whereupon his troops with- drew, after having burned a part of the fort. After this unsuccessful enterprise, Paillamachu re- mained quiet until the next year, 1596, when he began to make expeditions into the Spanish settlements to obtain forage for his army and to give his troops mili- tar}' exercise, but he was careful not to bring on an untimely engagement with the Spaniards sent out against him. 91