How the captains Alonzo de Alvarado and Gon- ZALO Pizarro contrived to escape from their prison, and captured the lieutenant Gabriel de Rojas; and how they went to the city of Los Reyes

When the captains Alonzo de Alvarado and Gonzalo Pizarro were taken out of the prison, where they had been with Hernando Pizarro, they were shut up in a room, and one Anton de Almagro, who was said to be a brother of the Adelantado was placed in charge of them. He was told how anxious the Adelantado was that they should be kept close, and that he must keep a very good look-out, some Spaniards who had been selected for that purpose watching them in their quarters. Finding themselves thus imprisoned, Gonzalo Pizarro and Alonzo de Alvarado consulted what would be the best means of escaping from the prison, and of finding their way to Los Reyes, to help the Governor against Almagro.