WHOLE VOL. THE WEST INDIES VAZQUEZ DE ESPINOSA 595 



was the first to be baptized, and countless Indians followed his 

 example. He suffered great hardships in the service of His Majesty ; 

 he was cited when with Gen. Diego Centeno in the battle of Huarina ; 

 and he went later as far as the Jauja Valley to receive President 

 Gasca, and he accompanied him constantly, until Gonzalo Pizarro 

 was captured and executed in Sacsahuana. It would have been im- 

 possible without his aid to achieve peace in that Kingdom ; he had 

 great authority with the Indians and they respected him highly as 

 their King and natural lord. His wife Dofia Catalina Toto Usica and 

 he had a lawful son, Don Carlos Inca, who inherited all his income ; 

 he married Doha Maria de Esquivel, a noble lady native of Trujillo ; 

 they had as legitimate son Don Melchior Carlos Inca, whose god- 

 father was the Viceroy Don Francisco de Toledo ; Doha Maria Arias, 

 wife of Martin de Olmos, Knight of the Order of Santiago, was 

 his godmother. This Don Melchior Carlos Inca was a Knight of 

 the Order of Santiago ; he died in Alcala de Henares in the year 

 1610, leaving as his sole heir Don Melchior Carlos Inca, who is at 

 present living as a resident of this court city in dire poverty ; he is 

 the only remaining descendant in the direct male line, of those Inca 

 Kings of Peru. 



Chapter XCVI [82, 83] (90) 



Continuing the Story of Those of the Blood Royal Who Escaped, 

 and in Particular, of Kings Huascar Inca and Mango Capac His 

 Brother, from Whom the Marques de Oropesa Is Descended. 



1594. In addition, Mama Varcay, wife of Huascar Inca, rescued 

 from this tyrannous persecution her daughter Coya Cuxi Varcay, 

 who later married Sayre Tupac Inca, son of Mango Capac, to whom 

 Marques Don Francisco Pizarro had given the royal tassel, since 

 as eldest son of Huayna Capac, he was next in line to Huascar Inca. 

 Sayre Tupac came down out of the mountains with his wife at the 

 instance of the Marques de Cafiete, Viceroy of Peru, and they were 

 baptized in the year 1558. They had a daughter who later married 

 Martin Garcia de Loyola, and their daughter is the Marquesa de 

 Oropesa, who is great-granddaughter of Kings Huascar Inca and 

 Mango Capac. Titu Inca left no successors. Many others escaped 

 from that cruel tyranny ; Inca Garcilaso deals with them more in 

 detail in his "Royal Commentaries," book I, folio 261. 



1595. Many others of the blood royal escaped, and among them 

 another daughter of King Huayna Capac ; after she became a Chris- 

 tian she took the name of Doha Ines Huayllas Nusta, which means 



