In the Jesuit Bartolomé de Escobar Lovera found a person who was able to supplement his work where his literary deficiencies were most evident. In some places Escobar wrote in his own name, or in the first person. While smoothing the rough places in the soldier’s composition, he added as adornments of style references to Biblical history and to the history of the Greeks and the Romans. The simple credulity of Lovera, moreover, led him to accept as miracles many events presented in tales by imposters or by persons of exaggerated faith. Santiago mounted on a white horse and fighting for the Spaniards on the plains of Chile, as one of the stock visions, had naturally to be introduced; perhaps also the view of the Virgin taking up a handful of dust from the ground and throwing it into the faces of the Indians to blind them during the combat. But there were certain rare inventions that also found place in Lovera’s pages, as when to the members of the war council of the Indians there appeared ‘una gran señora’ placed in mid-air, who reprimanded them for their crimes, infidelity, and blindness. The view of this figure caused them to hang their heads in silence for half an hour, and then “to depart each for his own house.”[54] These and other miraculous episodes of the book are ascribed in large measure to the influence of the pious Escobar. The latest personal note in the _Crónica_ relating to Lovera is found in his vivid account of the earthquake of December 16, 1575, which follows: [Sidenote: On the earthquake of 1575] [Sidenote: The tidal wave]