1. The traitor's fears were excited at the arrival of Taxardo, and it caused him to change his views as to embarking his people, so that Taxardo's party could do no harm with their arrows. Aguirre got his men out of the fortress (it being inconvenient for them to sally from the gate) through an opening he made high up in the wall, and they went down by a ladder one by one, and embarked, whilst he, and some of his friends, kept guard; until there only remained a few men, including his admiral Alonso Rodriguez, one of his old friends, who was not a little culpable in past crimes. He, seeing that the waves wetted Aguirre, begged of him to retire, so that he might not get wet. This observation so raised his anger that, drawing his sword, he cut the admiral's arm off. He then ordered him to be attended to, but, immediately changing his mind, the traitor ordered him to be killed, which was done, his attention and politeness to his chief having cost him his life; although some said that the admiral, who was occupied about the vessel, complained that the people would be uncomfortable if three horses and a mule, sent by Aguirre, went, and that it was this that incited him to this sanguinary act.

When all the people were embarked, and Aguirre was about to do the same with his guard, he went with them to the house of the priest of the town, named Contreras, and taking him much against his will, made him embark also.