1. The Viceroy and Oidores, as well as the inhabitants of Lima, began to entertain fears for the success of Ursua's expedition, for there were in it so many mutinous and turbulent persons, who had been in the rebellions of Gonzalo Pizarro, Francisco Hernandez Giron, Don Sebastian de Castilla, and that of Contreras; and the number of Ursua's followers was large, amounting to nearly three hundred men.

These suspicions increased daily, and were countenanced by idle and evil intentioned people, until a stop was put to them by the news of the execution of Ariles and Frias by Pedro de Ursua. The Marquis and the Oidores then became more tranquil, and praised the decisive act of the execution, and the Governor's management, promising to themselves great successes on account of the expedition. There were, however, some superstitious people who said that as blood had been shed at its commencement, it would end in blood.

One Pedro de Linasco, a settler in Chachapoias, and a friend of Ursua's, accustomed to such expeditions, and well acquainted with many of those who were with Ursua, wrote him a letter, in which he notified to him the suspicions of people in Peru that many of his soldiers were turbulent and mutinous, and that they might be troublesome to him, and might even kill him; that he should have especial suspicion of Lorenzo de Salduendo, Lope de Aguirre, Juan Alonso de la Bandera, Christoval de Chaves, a certain Don Martin, and others whom he named, telling him that for ten or twelve men more or less he was not to give up his journey, and he prayed him to separate those he had named from being his followers.