1. Aguirre became uneasy and fearful of one Enriquez de Orellana, whom he had made captain of the ammunition, and this without more cause than he had found on other occasions, when he wished to destroy any one: even if what had been reported to Aguirre was true, that Orellana had got drunk, on the day they came to Margarita. However, true or not, he ordered him to be hung, without allowing him to confess, although he begged for it. Aguirre gave the command of the ammunition to one Anton Llamoso, who had been sergeant of his guard, and so faithful was he to Aguirre, that he held the post until the death of the tyrant.

Some of the soldiers saw how insecure their lives were, for when they appeared to be in the greatest favour with Aguirre, he, on the most trivial suspicion, made away with them; so they bethought them how to escape from him. They were delayed in their project, seeing that the island was so small, and so well known to the inhabitants, whom Aguirre had so subjected, that he would oblige them, under the severest penalties, to search out and capture the soldiers, when they were missed; also that day and night, their chief was most vigilant with his guards and sentinels, placed everywhere in the town, and on the roads leading from it, so that it was next to impossible to escape with safety.