1. After six days sailing, from the village of the Xarcia, they came to some strong houses, on the margin of the river, built by the Indians, on the tops of high timbers, with their barbacoas above, and surrounded below with strong planks of palm wood, with loopholes for shooting oat their arrows. The traitor Aguirre sent one of his captains, with some soldiers, to one of these buildings, but the Indians made so good a show of resistance, that, without receiving any harm from the arquebuses, they dangerously wounded four Spaniards, and made the rest retreat. The Spaniards then tried to get to the rear of the building by a creek, but, having got to the spot, they found it empty, for the Indians had fled. They did not find any provisions, either in this house or the others, nor any signs of cultivation around them; so it was presumed that the Indians lived on fish, and what they procured by bartering these fish with other Indians. They only found some salt in cakes, prepared by boiling. They had not met with any salt before on this river, neither did the Indians (they had seen) know what it was.

From the Caperuzas to this point, according to the opinion of all, they had navigated one thousand three hundred leagues, including the various bends in the river. The expedition stayed here three days, making the necessary arrangements for sea, when they should get out of the river.