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Majesty's camp, they followed them and overtook them, so that they 

 forced them to retreat and retire to their fort, from which the rebel 

 came out to their aid ; but many of them were tired of their criminal 

 career or were dispirited by their necessities ; they learned that the 

 Governor would send them pardon in His Majesty's name, and were 

 won over by loyalist Capt. Pedro Alonso, so that many abandoned 

 Aguirre ; nevertheless he kept defending his fort with bravery. 

 But seeing that he was lost, he took a daughter who accompanied 

 him in the company of other women, among whom was Joana de 

 Torralba, and stabbed her to death, telling her that since they were 

 now lost, she should die, and not be called the daughter of a traitor, 

 or a traitoress. 



1060. Having made away with her the eve of the day of the Holy 

 Apostles Sts. Simon and Jude in the year 1561, he defended his fort 

 that night with the few stubborn men who remained with him ; and 

 the day of the Holy Apostles in the morning the valiant Militia Cap- 

 tain Diego Garcia de Paredes made his way into the fort with three 

 soldiers, one a loyalist named N. de Ledesma, and two of those of 

 his group, Galindo and Guerrero, eager to take him. They begged 

 to be allowed to kill the wild beast, and so God permitted that ac- 

 cursed wretch, who had deprived so many persons of life without 

 confession, to die without that consolation. Accordingly with his 

 permission they gave him a blow from which he dropped dead at 

 once ; they cut off his head and carried it to Tucuyo, where they held 

 a great celebration, giving thanks to God for joy over such a great 

 victory, and every year they hold it in commemoration, on the day 

 of the Holy Apostles. And so the country remained peaceful and 

 tranquil, now that the world was rid of such a criminal. 



1061. Immediately the Governor sent to have Figueroa brought to 

 justice, and his quarters displayed on the highway, for his murders 

 of the Franciscan friars in Margarita and other evil deeds he had 

 perpetrated ; and many others also, his accomplices in serious crimes. 

 Another with a long criminal record, by name Paniagua, who had 

 fled in apprehension over his guilt, was caught by Pedro de Molina 

 in the city of Merida ; and having been proved guilty of many crimes, 

 he was sentenced to be hanged and his quarters exposed on the 

 highway. A certain Antonio Llamoso, the vile creature who on the 

 Maraiion, after the tyrant had killed worthy Gov. Pedro de Ursua, 

 was commissioned by him to murder Doiia Ines de Atiensa, and put 

 that poor lady to death with inhuman cruelty, fled from the rigors 

 of justice under accusation for his crimes. He went and stopped 

 off in the city of Pamplona, which had been founded by Pedro de 



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