On account of the tired horse, I determined to stop at the Mission of Cudico, to the friar of which I had a letter of introduction.

Cudico is an intermediate district between the forest and the Llanos.

There are a good many cottages, with patches of corn and potatoes, nearly all belonging to Indians.

The tribes dependent on Valdivia are "reducidos y cristianos." The Indians farther northward, about Arauco and Imperial, are still very wild, and not converted; but they have all much intercourse with the Spaniards.

The padre said that the Christian Indians did not much like coming to mass, but that otherwise they showed respect for religion.