[212] Near the port of Islay, and westward of Cornejo point, the coast forms a shallow bay, in which is the small cove of Aranta, 13 miles from the valley of Quilca. Its capabilities as a port were personally examined by the President Castilla three years ago.
[213] One mile from Tungasuca.
[214] A coat of arms was granted to the family of the Incas by Charles V., at Valladolid, in 1544. Tierce in fess. On a chief azure, a Sun with glory proper; on a fess vert an eagle displayed sable, between a rainbow and two serpents proper; on a base gules, a castle proper.
These partitions, by tiercing the shield, are not used in English heraldry.
[215] Quispi, flint; and cancha, a place.
[216] The Spaniards declared that the Indians set the church on fire, and that all perished.—(Report of the Cabildo of Cuzco, MS.) But the above account of the affair was given by the Inca himself to Don Miguel Andrade of Azangaro, and he denied positively that the church was set on fire.—Sublevacion de Tupac Amaru. Angelis.
[217] Landa, the Governor of Paucartambo, had formerly led an exploring expedition into the montaña, in search of the great river of Madre de Dios or Purus.—Cuzco and Lima, p. 263.
[218] This Cacique Sahuaraura was the father of the late Dr. Justo Sahuaraura, of Cuzco, who published a little genealogical work in Paris, in 1850, in which he claimed descent from the Incas. I hear, however, that his genealogy is apocryphal. In 1835 he wrote to the editor of the Museo Erudito of Cuzco, offering to write the traditions of his family in that periodical, as an Inca. A Dr. Gallego, of Cuzco, replied that no Inca was ever called Sahuaraura, but that the Inca Rocca once had a servant of that name, and that he might possibly be descended from him. This silenced Don Justo for a long time. (Sahuay, a flame; raurac, make. He had to light the Inca's fire).
[219] Letter from Dr. Moscoso, Bishop of Cuzco, July 20, 1782.—Angelis.
[220] In the collection of Angelis.