Carried away by his unopposed successes, he now displayed the customary liberality of the Spanish conqueror in disposing of the property which did not belong to him. Supposing that he had vanquished the most valiant nation of _Chili_, he assigned to his followers the surrounding district. To Villagran, his lieutenant, he made over the province of _Maquegua_, with thirty thousand inhabitants. Other officers obtained from eight to twelve thousand natives, with lands in proportion; whilst Alderete was despatched with sixty men to form a settlement on the shore of Lake _Laquen_. To this was given the name of _Villarica_, from the quantity of gold found near it. Valdivia himself, still undisturbed by the Araucanians, continued his march towards the south, where he founded his sixth city, which he called _Valdivia_, being the first Spanish conqueror who thus sought to perpetuate his name. This settlement, which, like _Imperial_, enjoyed but a brief existence, is now only represented by its fortress. Valdivia, satisfied with his acquisitions, retraced his steps, and on his return march erected a fortress in each of the three provinces of _Puren_, _Tucapel_, and _Arauco_. Without reflecting on the enormous extent of country which he had to defend with so small a force, he on his return to _St. Iago_ despatched Aguirre, with two hundred men, to conquer the provinces of _Cujo_ and _Tucuman_ on the eastern side of the _Andes_. In the province of _Encol_ Valdivia founded his seventh and last city, to which he gave the name of the _City of the Frontiers_, an appellation which, although he could not have foreseen it, is singularly applicable to the position of its ruins to-day, situated as it is on the frontier of _Chili_ and the _Argentine Republic_. On his return to _Conception_ he sent Alderete to Spain with a large sum of money and an account of his conquests. He was to solicit for him in return the perpetual government of the conquered country, with the title of Marquis of _Arauco_.