sentences:  In his report, Varas recommended that a government regime distinct from the rest of the country should be designed for an eventual incorporation of Araucanía.Varas expressed the view that the eventual mission was to be to forcibly assimilate "civilize" the indigenous inhabitants by altering their material standard of living to western standards and "raise their spirit to the moral and religious truths".Manuel Montt, as President of Chile, passed a law on December 7 of 1852 that created the Province of Arauco, a territory intended to administer all territories south of the Bío-Bío River and north of Valdivia Province.