ABSTRACT
They stopped here because the greater number desired it. Lope de Aguirre, and those of his opinion, were for return ing to Piru, not by the river, but by sea,1 and as it appeared to them that this locality was most suitable for the cutting of timber to build large vessels, so that they might go out to sea, they bored holes in one of the flat-bottomed boats, in which the horses came, to sink them as they had done to others at the village they had left ; for they found themselves obliged to build brigantines and other craft of a larger sort than they had brought with them to this spot.
