[268] Information from Gen. San Roman, whose father, a native of Puno, joined Pumacagua at Cavanilla.
[269] Colonel Alcon.
[270] Gen. San Roman.
[271] Documento, i. Oficio de Vicente Angulo a Ramirez. Feb. 28, 1815.
[272] Documento ii. Oficio de Pumacagua a Ramirez. Marzo 6, 1815.
[273] Documento iii. Contestacion de Ramirez a Pumacagua. Marzo 7, 1815.
[274] Information from Gen. San Roman.
[275] Gen. San Roman, who gave me the account of this battle, was himself present at it, with his father, when a very little boy. His father was afterwards shot in the plaza of Puno, by the Spaniards, and when the liberating army arrived on the coast of Peru, in 1822, the young San Roman hurried down from his mountain home to join their ranks.
[276] In October, 1823, Gen. Miller saw the fair object of the poet Melgar's adoration, at Camana, on the coast of Peru. She was a native of Arequipa, with light hair, blue eyes, and a fair clear complexion. She refused Melgar, married another, and, being obliged to flee with her husband to escape the persecution of the Royalists, found an asylum on the banks of the river Camana. Her maiden name was Paredes.—Miller's Memoirs, ii. p. 90.
Melgar's brother is now Minister of Foreign Affairs at Lima.