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Chapter C [94] (97) 



Of the Corregimiento of Cabana and Cabanilla, and Other Re- 

 markable Things. 



1610. (Marg. : Of the district of the Circuit Court of the Charcas.) 

 Directly adjoining the Corregimiento and Province of Los Canas 

 on the Potosi King's Highway, is the Corregimiento of Cabana and 

 Cabanilla, between that of Los Canas and the Province of Paucarcolla, 

 to the S. The Corregimiento contains 23 villages : Cabana, Cabanilla, 

 \'ilque, Manaso, Orurillo, which is the seat of the Corregidor appointed 

 by the Viceroy for this province ; Atuncolla, Juliaca and El Pucara 

 which is 4 leagues from Ayaviri and 45 from Cuzco. This word pucara 

 means stronghold ; there were great, proud buildings there, with 

 many stone statues in the likeness of men and other creatures, very 

 neatly worked. It was at this pucara that the rebel Francisco Her- 

 nandez Jiron was defeated in the month of October of the year 

 1554; during his rebellious career, as is narrated by the histories 

 of those times, among the victories he won, the chief were that of 

 Chuquinga, in which he defeated Marshal Alvarado, and that in 

 the Villacuri sinks between lea and Pisco, over Gen. Pablo de Meneses. 



1611. This good fortune of the rebel general, which so puffed up 

 both him and his men, did not daunt the courage of the valiant loyal 

 captains and soldiers in His Majesty's forces, or deter them from 

 pursuing him more than 200 leagues, suffering great trials, fatigues, 

 and hardships over those uninhabitable wastes, hot and parched with 

 thirst in the plains, and deep in snow and short of food in the sierra ; 

 but they finally boxed him up in the Pucara — the stronghold of 

 El Collao — where he was vanquished with his rebel officers and men, 

 many of whom were executed ; and since his defeat gave the country 

 peace and quiet for a while, and [many] some of those who gave 

 good service were never explicitly mentioned, the historians not 

 having had full information about them or having made only vague 

 reference to them, I have made this brief digression in the desire 

 to leave their names immortalized as a reward for the valor and 

 faithfulness of their service, and to set them down here. Among 

 those who served well, were outstanding and distinguished them- 

 selves on all dangerous occasions, were Francisco Cajas de Espinosa 

 and Hernando de Cifontes, who had been Royal Paymaster (Conta- 

 dor) of the Province of Santa Marta. He was a native of Seville, 

 son of Pedro de Cifontes, Knight of the Order of Calatrava and 

 General of the Fleet which sailed from Seville for Santo Domingo 

 in or about 1532; he died in Santo Domingo and was buried there. 



