1. Aguirre was now occupied in this move to the coast by daylight (although there were some who advised him to get out at night, so that he might not be observed by the enemy). He also desired to kill one of his captains, named Juan Geronymo de Espindola, for some bold words he had uttered, but there were none who would help him to execute Espindola. At this juncture, captain Bravo and Diego Garcia de Paredes came, accompanied by a considerable mounted force, towards Aguirre quarters, having heard that he was about to march to the coast. They began shouting to the traitor's followers that he was deceiving them in all he was doing; that they should trust him no longer, but come over to the king's side at once. Whilst they were instigating the Marañones to desert, they perceived, as they had done some days before, other Indian servants at the stream which was near the entrenchment; so captain Bravo and the maestro del campo went out with fourteen or fifteen men, determined to catch them, telling those who remained on the heights that if they saw any of the traitor's men go forth to encounter them, to make a sign with a drawn sword: they then descended secretly to where the Indians were, but they were perceived by some of the Marañones, who were outside the entrenchment, trying to prevent, with their arquebuses, the advance of those whom Bravo had left on the heights.