The armies of Peru's Incas marched again & again during the 15th Century deep down into the narrow strip of coast that was even then called Chile, to conquer the proud Araucanian Indians. Pizarro's men took the job over, passed it on to generations of Spanish soldiers who tramped in, left behind broods of half-breeds, tramped out again. When Chile broke away from Spain in 1817, she went on trying to conquer the Araucanian in his southern provinces of Malleco and Cautin. Not until 1882 when some of the Araucanians who called themselves...
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