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.