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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- CHAPTER LI
- CHAPTER LII
CHAPTER L
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II
- CHAPTER III
- CHAPTER IV
- CHAPTER V
- CHAPTER VI
- CHAPTER VII
- CHAPTER VIII
- CHAPTER IX
- CHAPTER X
- CHAPTER XI
- CHAPTER XII
- CHAPTER XIII
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHAPTER XV
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHAPTER XVII
- CHAPTER XVIII
- CHAPTER XIX
- CHAPTER XX
- CHAPTER XXI
- CHAPTER XXII
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHAPTER XXIV
- CHAPTER XXV
- CHAPTER XXVI
- CHAPTER XXVII
- CHAPTER XXVIII
- CHAPTER XXIX
- CHAPTER XXX
- CHAPTER XXXI
- CHAPTER XXXII
- CHAPTER XXXIII
- CHAPTER XXXIV
- CHAPTER XXXV
- CHAPTER XXXVI
- CHAPTER XXXVII
- CHAPTER XXXVIII
- CHAPTER XXXIX
- CHAPTER XL
- CHAPTER XLI
- CHAPTER XLII
- CHAPTER XLIII
- CHAPTER XLIV
- CHAPTER XLV
- CHAPTER XLVI
- CHAPTER XLVII
- CHAPTER XLVIII
- CHAPTER XLIX
- CHAPTER L
- CHAPTER LI
- CHAPTER LII
Summary
1. Aguirre became very angry, on seeing that his soldiers were so near the enemy, and with such good firearms, and that they did the king's people no harm; that two of his men had deserted; and that his horse had been killed; so, with his accustomed fury, he said, “Marañones, is it possible that a few herdsmen, with sheepskin jackets and hide bucklers, thus shew themselves amongst us, and you do not bring them to the earth?” Aguirre made these observations in consequence of his opponents wearing a sort of cloak made of the skins of pumas or deer, much used in these countries of the Indies; their swords were rusty, their lances in a similar state. He also had his suspicions that his men, instead of firing at the enemy, fired only into the air; so he began to retire to his entrenchment, having almost to drive many of them, with a halberd he carried. Having got into his quarters, a Portuguese, one of his great allies, named Gaspar Diaz, secreted himself behind a door, armed with an aguja or sharp instrument, watching for the coming of Francisco Caballero (he who tried to desert to the king's party, but failed), and, thinking he would please Aguirre by what he was going to do, as Caballero approached, Diaz shouted out, “Death to the traitor,” and threw the aguja, which caught the soldier in his partes privadas, causing him excruciating pain; some others who came up would have finished Caballero, had not the traitor (knowing that he had not been very culpable) ordered that he should not be deprived of life, but that they should do their best to cure him.
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- The Expedition of Pedro de Ursua and Lope de Aguirre in Search of El Dorado and Omagua in 1560–1Translated from Fray Pedro Simon's Sixth Historical Notice of the Conquest of Tierra Firme by William Bollaert, pp. 220 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1861