1. Before they arrived at this village, Alonzo de Montoya went with a party in canoes, in search of provisions, up a small branch of the river. Montoya found, at a small settlement, dried fish and some maize, which the Indians had not had time to take away when they fled. The Prince Don Fernando determined to remain eight days to celebrate Passion week, which had already commenced, and to depart after Easter. This would allow of time to rest, and to search for provisions. The fish caught by the soldiers, as well as more brought by the Indians, and bartered, was of great use; and the love of barter brought the Indians peacefully from their hiding places, to treat with the Spaniards.

They were quite naked, they used the same weapons, and spoke the same language as those higher up the river; so it was presumed they were of the same nation.

It happened on one of the days of Easter, that a soldier named Pedro Alonso Casto, who had been alguazil to Pedro de Ursua, in talking to another man named Villatoro, complained of the small consideration the mutineers had shown in regard to him, and that they had not given him a particular post he desired; and, laying hold of his beard with his hand, repeated the following lines from Virgil: “Audaces fortuna juvat, timidosque repellit”—Fortune aids the bold, but overthrows the timid.