138 CAEEER OF TUPAC AMARU. Chap. IX. 



ricliest and best in Peru, and situated near Cuzco, where the 

 memory of the Incas was most cherished. Many descendants 

 of the Incas, he added, were then living, subject to no tribute 

 and no personal service, and very rich and powerful ; and he 

 recommended that all claimants to the marquisate shoidd be 

 obliged to live in Spain, and that an equivalent should be 

 paid them for then- estates.^ This advice was not adopted by 

 the Council of the Indies, 



The young Inca at this time dropped his surname of Con- 

 dorcanqui, and assumed that of Tupac Amaru Inca. He 

 governed his villages of Tungasuca, Surinani, and Pampa- 

 marca exceedingly well, and was highly esteemed by the 

 corregidor of the province, Don Pedro Muiioz de Arjona, and 

 liis successors, who admired his punctual attention to his 

 duty, and therefore distinguished him above all the other 

 caciques. He habitually cultivated the acquaintance of the 

 Spanish curas and officials, and never let pass an opportunity 

 of representing to them, in impassioned language, the deplo- 

 rable condition of the Indians.^ He assisted the distressed, 

 paid tribute for the poor, and sustained whole families which 

 had been reduced to ruin." He cherished the traditions of 

 liis people, and such customs as were not inconsistent with 

 liis profession of Christianity ; and he especially delighted in 

 the dramatic representations whicli recalled the glorious 

 memories of the past. One of his most intimate friends was 

 Dr. Antonio Valdez, Cura of Sicuani, a perfect master of the 

 Quichua language, arid author of a play called ' Ollantay,' 

 founded on ancient tradition, which was frequently acted 

 before Tupac Amaru at Tungasuca.^ 



® DespacJios que el Exmo. Seiior I ' From the collection of Angelis. 

 Principe de Esquilache, Virey de los I - Funes. 



reynos del Peru, envio a su Magestad. I ^ In my review of the language and 

 No. G, p. 344. Lima, April 16, 1G18. literature of the Incas in a former 

 — BI8. in the National Library at Ma- work {Cuzco and Lima, eliap. vi.) I 

 (hid, H. 5?>. gave some translated extraets from the 



