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 io6 A HISTORY OF CHILE Spanish provinces. They observed the terms of the treaty faithfully during the six years of the Mar- quis of Baides' government, and during that of his successors in oiBce, Don Martin de Muxica and Alonzo de Cordova y Figueroa. Don Antonio de Acuna y Cabrera succeeded to the government, and during his administration the war between the Spaniards and Araucanians broke out afresh, but of its causes we have little information. In 1655 there was a renewal of the war, caused prin- cipally by the cupidity and stupidity of the maestre de campo and the sergeant-major, relatives of the gover- nor, who commanded the army. The people of Con- cepcion were so incensed that the timid governor fled to Santiago to escape their fury. Clentaru was elected toqui and defeated the Spanish army under the ser- geant-major. He also captured the forts of Arauco, Colcura, San Pedro, Talcamavida and San Rosendo, which the Spaniards had built and repaired ; he crossed the Biobio, defeated the governor at Yumbel, destroyed several forts and burned Chilian. The war lasted dur- ing a period of ten years, Pedro Portale Casanate, Diego Gonzales Montero, Angel de Pereda, Francisco de Menes6s being the governors. Generally speaking, the Araucanian leaders — Clen- taru, and the mestizo, Alejo — seem to have been usually successful in military exploits, so that in 1665 the Spaniards were satisfied to conclude another treaty of peace with the Indians, similar in its terms to the treaty made at the time of Baides in 1640, which treaty was afterward kept by both nations until 1722. Menes6s was as unfortunate as Rivera before him had been, in marrying without the royal decree. He mar- ried the daughter of the Marquis de la Pica, in which affair he was seriously opposed by the Royal Audience,