After he had recovered from the shock caused by the news of this disaster, he hastened to Chillán and joined a force that went in pursuit of the Indians, under the command of Tomás de Olaverría, and was later engaged in other campaigns. In 1600 Álvarez de Toledo married Jerónima de Lemos. At that time he was living as an encomendero, or the proprietor, of an estate in the country near San Juan de la Frontera, where he died on August 3, 1633, leaving his estancia stocked with goats, sheep, and cattle. Other items of his property were three slaves and a vineyard inherited from his ancestors. [Sidenote: Toledo’s _Araucana_] [Sidenote: _El Purén indómito_] Of Toledo’s poem _Araucana_ only small fragments have been preserved, and the writer’s reputation rests chiefly on the twenty-four cantos of _El Purén indómito_, written at least in part during the author’s military service. It lacks most of the essential qualities of a poem but is important as an historical document.[79] Medina characterizes Álvarez de Toledo as simply a soldier who wrote verses with great facility, and who, without any pretension to divine inspiration, sets forth in an agreeable manner the conflict of arms in which he himself had figured, or of which he had received minute information from the accounts of his companions, narrated at night around camp fires. He did not propose to present poetic inventions, episodes of the imagination, but to recount only real and accredited facts.[80] His purpose was to write a chronicle in verse, and the product of his labour lacks the chief characteristics of an epic. In his fifteen thousand lines the scene changes from Chile to Peru, from Santiago to Concepción, from the banks of rivers to the sombre depths of the forests of Arauco, and from the strand of the open sea to the narrow valleys of the mountains; and throughout the narrative there is abundant evidence of the writer’s memory of details, of the names of persons, of the exact time of events, and even of the colour of horses. Some of his octaves are composed almost entirely of names, and are therefore, practically unreadable, particularly when these names are of Araucanian persons or objects.[81] The _Araucana_ of Álvarez de Toledo is accepted as a credible historical narrative, and equal credibility is attributed to its continuation under the title of _Purén indómito_. IV [Sidenote: Ercilla continued by Osorio]