1. Doña Inez de Atienza had not left the evil ways she had continued in since she left Pirú (although she had witnessed so many violent deaths, which Providence had placed before her), and was living as the mistress of Lorenzo Salduendo, captain of Don Fernando's guard. Doña Inez had with her, as a companion, a Doña Maria de Soto, a mestiza, who was the mistress of another man in the expedition. All being ready to start, Salduendo busied himself in arranging how the females and their baggage could be accommodated in the brigantines; and, that they might repose comfortably at night, he wished to send some mattresses on board for them. Aguirre (either because he did not like the women, or that he was jealous that any one should have a female companion), told Salduendo that the mattresses could not go in the brigantines, as they took up too much room, inasmuch as there were a great many people, and other more important things, which it was absolutely necessary to take. Thus Aguirre excused himself, and Salduendo went away in an angry mood, returning to his lodging, where he found the two women awaiting a favourable reply from Aguirre; and, having told them what had passed, and the angry way in which he had been refused, in an offended spirit he flung away from him a lance he had in his hands, saying, “Am I to beg for favours from Lope de Aguirre at these my years?”