The Araucanians, under their new _Toqui_, Guanoalca, being informed that the garrison was ill-supplied with provisions and cut off from succour, were not long in returning to the siege of _Puren_, the Spaniards in which place, however, were permitted to retire unmolested to _Angol_. The _Toqui_ then lost no time in marching against a new fort in the vicinity of the mountain of _Mariguenu_; but on its being reinforced he turned his arms against _Spirito Santo_ and _Trinidad_ on the _Bio-bio_, both of which were evacuated in 1589. Guanoalca was seconded in his military operations by the heroine Janequeo, the wife of Guepotan, who had long defended _Leben_. On the loss of that place he had retired to the _Andes_; but he had descended to the plains in order to regain his wife; and, being surprised, he chose to die rather than be made prisoner. He was well avenged. Janequeo placed herself at the head of a force of _Puelches_, and in 1590 began to make inroads upon the Spanish settlements, killing all who fell into her hands. The governor of _Chili_ marched against her, but only to lose time and men. Before his retreat he gave orders that all prisoners should be hanged. Janequeo next proceeded against the fortress of _Puchanqui_, near which she defeated its commander, Aranda, who was himself slain. The fort having resisted her efforts, she retired to the mountains near _Villarica_, the neighbourhood of which she rendered so unsafe that none ventured to quit the town. Moved by the complaints of the citizens, Sotomayor at length sent his brother _Don_ Louis to their aid. Janequeo repelled the various assaults of the Spaniards, but was in the end obliged to retreat before their artillery. Her brother being taken, he obtained his life on the promise of keeping his sister quiet; but whilst his proposal for a reconciliation with the Spaniards was being debated in council, he was killed by a patriotic _Ulmen_, who would not hear of such a proposition. [Sidenote: 1591.]