I. Amongst the soldiers who were turning things upside down in the country, to find occupation for their thievish hands, there was one who dug up a jar of olives belonging to the tradesman, named Pedro Nuñez, who was still a prisoner. He had put some pieces of gold into the jar, hoping thus to save them; and, when it came to his knowledge that a soldier had found his hidden treasure, he went to Aguirre and besought him to see that the gold was given up to him, as the soldiers had eaten the olives.

The traitor commanded the soldier to be brought before him, and, having asked him about the jar of olives and the gold, the soldier replied that it was true as to the olives, but not as regarded the gold. Aguirre then asked the tradesman how the cover of the jar was fastened on, when he replied, before the soldier, that it was sealed with pitch. The soldier swore this was not the fact, and, to prove the other had spoken falsely, he brought to Aguirre a cover that had been closed with plaster, saying that this was the cover the jar had been closed with, and not one with pitch; so Aguirre, who had not forgotten what he had formerly said to Pedro Nuñez, when he wished to dash his helmet at him, said that any one who could tell such a lie of a soldier, would lie as to every thing else, so he had him strangled.