[221] Angelis and Guzman, MSS.
[222] Historia de lo acaecido en el Real Asunto de Paucartambo, en la rebelion sucitada por José Gabriel Tupac Amaru. A manuscript account of the siege of Paucartambo, by Fray Raymundo Gonzalez, Religioso Mercedario, written in 1782. The original is still at Paucartambo, where I saw it, and there are two or three copies at Cuzco.
[223] Namely:—
- Pumacagua of Chinchero.
- Rosas of Anta.
- Sucacahua of Umachiri.
- Huaranca of Santa Rosa.
- Chuquihuanca of Azangaro.
- Game of Paruro.
- Espinosa of Catoca.
- Carlos Visa of Achalla.
- Chuquicallata of Saman.
- Huambo Tupa of Yauri.
- Callu of Sicuani.
- Aronis of Checacupe.
- Cotacellapa of Caravaya.
- Sahuaraura of Oropesa.
- Choquechua of Belem, in Cuzco.
- Bustinza Uffucana of Sta. Anna, in Cuzco.—Letter from Dr. Moscoso, Bishop of Cuzco.
[224] The way in which this valuable despatch of the Inca Tupac Amaru became public is very curious. In 1806 Dr. Tadeo Garate, of La Paz, Secretary to Bishop Las Heras (afterwards Archbishop of Lima), was ordered by the Viceroy Marquis of Aviles to publish a history of the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru in 1780-1; and, to guard against the possibility of authentic counter-statements, this despatch was taken from the archives of Cuzco, and sent to La Paz in charge of an Indian student named Pasoscanki, who perused it on the road, and was so struck with the magnanimity and heroism of his native prince, that he did not deliver the papers. He afterwards emigrated to Buenos Ayres, and, in 1812, went to England, and commissioned Mr. Wood, of Poppin's-court, Fleet-street, to print Tupac Amaru's despatch; but, for want of funds, this was not done, and, Pasoscanki returning to Buenos Ayres, the publication was abandoned. In 1828 the same printer was employed to print the Spanish edition of Gen. Miller's Memoirs, and at that time the despatch was found amongst some old papers in Mr. Wood's office. It was finally published in an appendix to the Spanish edition of Gen. Miller's Memoirs.
[225] Report of Gen. del Valle, Sept. 30, 1781, MS. Letter of Areche. MS., in the library at Lima.
[226] This draft of an edict is amongst the papers in Angelis. It is possible, however, that it may have been forged by the Spaniards, in order to produce written evidence of the intentions of Tupac Amaru.
[227] Tomas Parvina de Colquemarca, "Justicia Mayor," and Felipe Bermudez, a Spaniard, belonged to the "Junta Privada," or Privy Council, of the Inca. Bermudez had acted as the Inca's secretary.
[228] There is said to be a picture in the church at Tinta representing this massacre.
[229] He is said to have been dressed in Incarial robes, with the arms of the Incas embroidered in gold at the corners.