Crossword-Solution: ARAUCANA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

They consist of:— Natica australis, d’Orbigny, “Voyage, Part Pal.” Mactra Araucana, d’Orbigny, “Voyage, Part Pal.” Trigonia Hanetiana, d’Orbigny, “Voyage, Part Pal.” Pecten, fragments of, probably two species, but too imperfect for description.

There is but one long poem of this class which obtained much regard when it appeared, and which has been remembered ever since, the "Araucana." The author of this work, Ercilla (1533-1595), was a page of Philip the Second, and accompanied him to England on the occasion of his marriage with Mary.

Thus Ercilla made his _Araucana_: that is, the poem of the expedition against the Araucanians in Chili, or rather he thus wrote the first (and best) of the three parts; later, desirous of rising to epic heights, he had resort to the contrivances and conventional traditional ornaments of this type of work and became dull, without entirely losing all his skill.

The _Araucana_ is agreeably savage in its first part without being ferocious and fastidiously civilised in the sequels without being contemptible.

Some notion of the tremendous vigour with which these wars of the south were waged may be gathered from "La Araucana," the magnificent epic written by Ercilla, the Spanish poet, who composed his verses hot from the fight, his arms still weary from wielding the sword.