_Inchin in Chao, huenumenta m' leymi, ufchingepe mi wi;_ Our Father, in heaven thou that art, hallowed be thy name; _eymi mi toguin inchinmo cupape; eymi mi piel, chumgechi_ thy kingdom to us may it come; thy will, as it is _vemgey huenu-mapumo, vemgechi cay vemengepe_ done in heaven, so likewise may it be done _tue-mapumo, &c._ on earth, &c. SECTION III. _State of Chili, and Conquests made in that Country by the Peruvians, before the arrival of the Spaniards._ The History of Chili and its inhabitants does not precede the middle of the fifteenth century, and what little is known respecting it is contained in the traditionary accounts of the Peruvians, who first invaded the northern province of Chili about the middle of that century, not an hundred years before the overthrow of the Peruvian empire by Pizarro, and the first Spanish invasion of Chili under Almagro. About the year 1450, while the Inca Yupanqui reigned over the Peruvian empire which had then extended its limits from Cuzco northwards to the equator and southwards to the tropic of Capricorn, the ambition of the Peruvian government was attracted to the acquisition of the important country of Chili, a rich and delightful region of great extent, immediately adjacent to the southern extremity of Peru. Favoured by the fertility of the country and the salubrity of the climate, the population of Chili may be readily supposed to have then been considerable, as we know that the whole extent of its territory was occupied by fifteen independent tribes or communities, each of which was governed by its respective chiefs, or _Ulmens_. These, tribes, beginning at the north on the confines of the desert of Atacama, were called Copaipins, Coquimbans, Quillotans, Mapochians, Promaucians, Cures, Cauques, Pencones, Araucanians, Cunches, Chilotes, Chiquilanian, Pehuenches, Puelches, and Huilliches; which last tribe inhabited the south of Chili, adjoining the archipelago of Chiloe.