1. Aguirre had not recovered from the rage in which he had perpetrated his last horrors, when it was augmented on his being informed that one of his captains, named Juan de Turriaga, had shown himself friendly to the soldiers, by having some poor men at his table, who held him in great respect, for his goodness of disposition. As flowers are rendered poisonous by the pestilential spider, so Aguirre said of this captain that he was his enemy, and acted in this friendly way to the poor men, in order to make a party, with the object of killing him. Aguirre, having made up his mind, doomed Turriaga, and, to strike terror into the hearts of soldiery and people, he arranged that Turriaga should die. He delegated this bloody act to his maestro del campo, Martin Perez, as a faithful satellite to his tyrant chief. Perez selected some of his friends among the soldiers, who, with arquebuses and other arms, went stealthily one night to Turriaga's quarters, whom they found at evening meal with some of his comrades. Turriaga, on seeing Martin Perez enter, rose from table, to receive him with the honour due to his rank, as maestro del campo. Turriaga had scarcely uncovered himself, bowing and approaching Perez, when the arquebuses were discharged at Turriaga by some, then others rushed at him with their lances and swords, when he fell to the ground, dead, bathed in his own blood. The murderers then sallied out of the house, communicating to Aguirre that his enemy was no more.