ABSTRACT
At this time an inhabitant of the city, named Alonzo Perez de Aguilar, not liking the neighbourhood of Aguirre, laid his plans for escaping from the town, and afterwards from the island; and, although Aguirre used every means, in the hope of arresting him, Aguilar escaped. The traitor, not being able to have his person, vented his tiger’s rage upon the houses belonging to Aguilar. He went, accompanied by some of his satellites, to destroy the houses, as if they had been the property of a traitor to his king; he caused them to be pillaged, unroofed, and then levelled to the ground, so that there was not one stone upon another, and strewed the ground with salt: this vile spirit also caused the slaying of the cattle, the destruction of the estates, lands, and all he could find belonging to Aguilar.
