ABSTRACT
Some of the soldiers saw how insecure their lives were, for when they appeared to be in the greatest favour with Aguirre, he, on the most trivial suspicion, made away with them; so they bethought them how to escape from him. They were delayed in their project, seeing that the island was so small, and so well known to the inhabitants, whom Aguirre had so subjected, that he would oblige them, under the severest penalties, to search out and capture the soldiers, when they were missed; also that day and night, their chief was most vigilant with his guards and sentinels, placed everywhere in the town, and on the roads leading from it, so that it was next to impossible to escape with safety. However, with all these difficulties in sight, they determined
to try ; so four soldiers, two and two, named Francisco Vas quez, Gonzalo de Zuniga, Juan de Villatoro, and Luis Sanchez del Castillo, at a certain hour of the night, fled from the city.
