142 NAREATIVE OF AMARU'S REBELLION. Chap. IX. 



were odious to tlie Indians, their owners having enforced the 

 mita far beyond the limits assigned by the law, and perpe- 

 trated great cruelties on the women and children of the 

 mitayos. The Inca had now mustered 6000 troops, 300 

 armed with muskets, and the rest with pikes, clubs, and 

 slings. Nearly the whole population of the provinces of 

 Tinta, Quispicanclii, Cotabambas, Galea, and Cliumbivilicas 

 rose in his favour, with the exception of a few whites. 



The news of Tupac Amaru's revolt was brought to Cuzco 

 on the 12th, by Cabrera, the Corregidor of Quispicanchi, who 

 had so narrowly escaped capture. It created the greatest 

 alarm, as the city ■was only garrisoned by two regiments. 

 The college of the expelled Jesuits was tm-ned into a kind 

 of citadel, into which j^rivate and public property was taken 

 for security ; the white part of the population was enrolled ; 

 requisitions for troops were sent to the neighbouring pro- 

 vinces ; and an express was despatched to Lima, imploring 

 speedy succour. 



Next day 450 men, under the command of Don Tiburcio 

 de Landa, Governor of Pam'cartambo, marched out of Cuzco, 

 accompanied by the Cacique of Oropesa, Juan Sahuaraura, 

 with 700 Indians of liis ayllu, or tribe. Landa was ordered 

 to wait for reinforcements at a place called Huayi-a-pata ; 

 but the Corregidor Don Fernando Cabrera, who accompanied 

 him, enraged at the loss of property which he had sustained, 

 induced him to advance to the village of Sangarara, within 

 five leagues of Tinta, wliicli he reached on the 17th. At 

 dawn on the following morning it began to snow, and, find- 

 ing himself surrounded by a superior force of hostile Indians, 

 Landa retreated into the church. Tupac Amaru then wrote 

 to him, offering terms, which were refused ; and lie again 

 wrote to the cura, who was also in the church, urging him 

 to retire with the women and children. The Spanish troops, 

 however, prevented them from coming out, a scufile ensued, 



