Fig. 58—Crossing the Apurimac at Pasaje. These are mountain horses, small and wiry, with a protective coat of long hair. They are accustomed to graze in the open without shelter during the entire winter.
Fig. 59—Crossing the Apurimac at Pasaje. The mules are blindfolded and pushed off the steep bank into the water and rafted across.
Thus Indian troops killed the white rebels of Abancay.
“Tell me, Señor,” said the fugitive, “if you think that just. Tell me how many Indians you think a white man worth. Would a hundred dead Indians matter? But how replace a white man where there are so few? The government assassinated my compatriots!”
“But,” I replied, “why did you fight the government? All of you were prosperous. Your fathers may have had a grievance against the government, but of what had you young men to complain?”