[230] A list of the prisoners is given amongst the Angelis papers.
[231] It is printed in the appendix to the Spanish edition of Gen. Miller's Memoirs, vol. i.
[232] One account says that he was tortured until one arm was dislocated, by the garruche, by order of Matta Linares. Guzman MSS.
[233] Letter from Gen. del Valle, Sept. 30, 1781.
[234] One of these was Dr. Don Toribio Carrasco, afterwards Cura of Belem in Cuzco, who, in 1835, mentioned the circumstance, and the impression it had made, to Gen. Miller.
[235] These executions, in all their revolting details, were certified by Juan Bautista Gamarra, public notary to the Cabildo of Cuzco, in a document dated May 20, 1781.
[236] Report of the Cabildo of Cuzco.
[237] The edict, fixing the destinations of the different parts of each victim, is printed amongst the papers in Angelis.
[238] The Pizarros and their companions were angels of mercy when compared with such vile wretches as Areche and Matta Linares; yet we are told by one of his flatterers that "the tender heart of the visitador was filled with piety and humanity, and that early on the day after the execution he went to the cathedral, and, having confessed and partaken of the sacrament, he paid for several masses for the souls of the culprits, and heard them all on his knees, thus edifying the whole city." Hypocritical hyæna!—Guzman MSS.
[239] When Señor Zea, of Bogota, was in Paris, Kotzebue undertook a journey on purpose to obtain information from him respecting Tupac Amaru, having conceived the idea of writing a tragedy founded on his rebellion. But Zea, being a Colombian, knew little or nothing about it.