Joven Daniel was a brigantine of the Chilean Navy that entered service in 1838 serving as transport in Manuel Bulnes' expedition to Peru during the War of the Confederation.

[4] The Chilean state sent Joaquín Sayago to investigate the issue and while he failed to find Curin and his people he was able to contact the tribes of Toltén south of the place of the wreck.

[5] The intendant of Valdivia sent Miguel José Cambiazo[B] in charge of a military detachment north to arrest Curin and his people and bring them to justice.

[3] General José María de la Cruz[C] who was commander of southern forces of the Chilean Army, and the likely leader of a punitive expedition, called Mapuche caciques from the area near the wreck to a parliament.

In a letter attached to the trial documents José Antonio Zúñiga, a soldier active in the expedition of Sayago,[D] described the coast of Puancho as rocky, thus showing earlier descriptions of the site of the wreck as a beach wrong.

He further put forward the thesis that murder accusations among the Mapuche originated from quarrels about the loot since many groups had rapidly gathered at the wreck site.

[8] The strong anti-Mapuche sentiments that rose in Chilean society contributed years later to the decision to by Chile to invade their hithereto independent territories.

[11] Historian Diego Barros Arana concluded no murder had occurred and that Valdivian soldiers had kept part of the loot hiding this with a series of lies and misleading statements.

[11] Barros Arana praised the reaction of the central authorities and his views on the subject were later adopted by other notable historians such as Francisco Antonio Encina and Ricardo Ferrando.