...ravages, as they were entirely unacquainted with it. Of the several districts of the country there was one whose population amounted to twelve thousand persons,...one hundred escaped with life.* This pestilential disorder, which from its long continuation has been more fatal than any other to the human race, had...

...ravages, as they were entirely unacquainted with it. Of the several districts of the country there was one whose population amounted to twelve thousand persons,...which number not more than one hundred escaped with 138 life.* This pestilential disorder, which from its long continuation has been more fatal than any...

...the sword of the enemy ensued. There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis...

...the sword of the enemy ensued. There was one province, the population of which amounted, it is said, "to twelve thousand persons, of which number, not more than one hundred escaped with life." In accordance with the settlement enjoined by Valdivia, two officers of note, Alderete and one Francis...

...to the disease and hardened to its terrors. Given in his own words the account is as follows — " Some time since, the Viceroy of Peru sent as a present to the Governor, Juan Zaraquemada, from Lima to Chili, several jars of powder, honey, wine, olives and different kinds of...

...Valdivia. This outbreak continued into the next year, and one writer described a district of about twelve thousand persons, "of which number not more than one hundred escaped with life" (Molina 1809, 2: 159). Seven years later, when the new Spanish governor of Chile arrived to take up...