Hardly had we started when our men again rebelled; they would not make the journey for the price agreed upon, the risk was too great; they must be paid more, if they went at all.

I felt that patience had ceased to be a virtue.
Telling them that we would no longer go ahead, we ordered them to take up their burdens and precede us, at the same time threatening to shoot them, if they stopped without permission.

After marching along in this new order for a time, they indicated a desire to parley.

They would carry their burdens to the foot of the hill, where they would leave them by the brook-side.

We could then go on to the village of San Pedro and send back carriers to bring them.