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that we had been out from the Province of Machifaro, which was 

 where we had left our Governor, and we took along with us four of 

 the Indian women we had found in the tambos, to have them ques- 

 tioned by the interpreters who had stayed at the camp, and to give 

 information about what we had seen and discovered to our Governor, 

 with desire and ambition to return at his request with a larger force. 

 It was 2 days after Epiphany, in the year 1560; and when we got 

 to the camp, which was in the Province of Machifaro, we went to 

 the cabin where we had left our Gov. Pedro de Ursua, to give him 

 an account of what we had discovered ; but we found him dead, and 

 Don Juan de Vargas also, his Lieutenant General, and two other 

 soldiers, and Don Hernando de Guzman chosen General, who had 

 been Gov. Pedro de Ursua's Royal Ensign, and Lope de Aguirre 

 Militia Captain ; he was the one who managed everything despotically 

 with his treacheries and his accusations ; it was because of the Devil, 

 who saw that he was on the verge of being deprived of his grasp 

 on so many and such blind tribes as he held and still holds in those 

 vast regions ; he entered the heart of this rebel traitor, like another 

 Judas, taking him as his tool for the murder of the General, so that 

 with his death everything should be upset, as it was upset, and he 

 should remain in unjust possession, as he had intended. Juan Alonso 

 de la Bandera was appointed Lieutenant General, and Lorenzo de 

 Salduendo Captain of the Guard of this Don Hernando de Guzman ; 

 the other important camp offices were divided by the traitor Lope de 

 Aguirre among the conspirators. They dismissed the Indian women 

 we had brought, saying that there was no longer any idea of searching 

 for El Dorado and Omagua. 



Chap. 12 (sic) 



Continuing the Description of the Maraiion, and the Arbitrary 

 Acts of Lope de Aguirre. 



1207. And so on the next day the rebel ordered us to leave the 

 Province of Machifaro, and off we went to find another place where 

 there should be food, and timber to build brigantines ; we had brought 

 along the horses in them, for the flatboats had gone to the bottom, 

 most of them. And so within 5 days after leaving the Province of 

 IMachifaro, where the rebel left our murdered Governor, we came 

 upon another fine settlement of people who were orderly, wore 

 clothing, and were very intelligent. Here the interpreters told us 

 that in 10 days' journey we could reach El Dorado or the Province 

 of Omagua, where there was more gold and silver than in Peru ; 



