ABSTRACT
But Aguirre’s thoughts ran more upon Piru, than upon making peace with these Indians; so he did not think it worth while to await their coming, or else he considered that they had not been prudent in sending the two Indians away, who would report what they had seen, and the natives in large numbers might come and attack them ; for all around was a high plain free from marshes, being an open savanna, surrounded by a forest of cork-trees (alcornocales claros).
