ABSTRACT
As soon as Gomez de Tordoya had gone down to the bridge with the detachment under his orders Alonzo de Alvarado did the same with all the rest of his force except a guard over the prisoners, giving orders that they should be treated well. Having arrived at the river he ordered Juan Perez de Guevara, captain of infantry, to station himself a little below the bridge with the men on foot, with their arms in readiness, so as to defend the passage of the river when the enemy should come. Juan de Rojas, with the cross-bow men, was placed at a ford near the bridge. Luis Valera was to see that all the soldiers were in their places. As soon as Diego and Gomez de Alvarado and the others knew that the Captain Alonzo de Alvarado had gone down to defend the passage of the river, they wrote to the Adelantado by a negro belonging to the licentiate Prado, advising him to come with all possible speed, and telling him that in the camp of Alonzo de Alvarado he had many friends. It is said that Pedro de Lerma and the Captain Diego Gutierrez de los Rios, and others who were left in charge of the prisoners and the camp on the heights of Cochacaxa, had conversations with the prisoners, and were false to Alonzo de Alvarado, and about other things respecting which I shall be silent.
