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Updated: May 29, 2025
Aguirri or, as he is still called by the common people, "the tyrant" was at length abandoned by his own men and put to death. When surrounded by foes, and conscious that his fate was inevitable, he plunged a dagger into the bosom of his only daughter, that she might not have to blush before the Spaniards at the term, "the daughter of a traitor."
Among them was Fernando de Guzman, who had been chosen king; but De Aguirri not liking his rule, killed him and the captain of his guard, his lieutenant-general, his chaplain, a woman, a knight of the Order of Rhodes, two ensigns, and five or six of his domestics.
The Indian looked satisfied; and then went on to tell us of the wars which his people waged in former days when they lived near the ocean with the white men who first came over to their country. The most ferocious and daring of these indeed, he appears to have been almost a madman was Lopez de Aguirri.
The native inhabitants made their escape across the lake of Tacarigua, taking with them all their boats, so that Aguirri could only exercise his cruelties on his own people. He at once began to put to death those who opposed him; and in a letter to the king he boasts of the number of officers whom he had killed.
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