Chap. IX. NARRATIVE OF AMARU'S REBELLION. 



143 



the stock of powder ignited, and tlie roof and one of tlie 

 walls were blown out. The Spaniards then made a dash 

 forward, and fought bravely until they were nearly all 

 killed.® Only twenty-eight wounded remained, who were 

 cured and set at liberty by order of the Inca. Lauda,' his 

 lieutenant Escajadillo, Cabrera, and the Cacique Sahuaraura^ 

 were amongst the slain. 



The news of the disaster at Sangarara reached Cuzco on 

 the 19th, and produced indescribable confusion. The Cabildo 

 immediately began to collect arms, make powder, repair six 

 old field-pieces, and on the 20th Don Juan. Nicolas de 

 Lobaton y Zavala, Marquis of Eocafuerte, arrived from 

 Urubamba with reinforcements. Every citizen came forward 

 to serve, and a corps of volunteers was formed under Don 

 Faustino Alvarez de Foronda, Count of Vallehermoso. The 

 Bishop ordered aU the clergy to assemble, formed them into 

 four companies, and gave the command to the Dean, Dr. 

 Manuel de Mendieta. More troops soon came in from Galea, 

 under Don Pablo Astete, and from other parts, and by the 

 end of November there were 3000 men in arms at Cuzco. 

 Anxious to pacify the Indians, the Cabildo then issued a pro- 

 clamation abolishing the repartos, and the alcahala, or excise 

 on provisions, and declaring that the Indians should never 



^ The Spaniards declared that the 

 Indians set the chui'ch on fii-e, and 

 that all perished. — (Report of the Ca- 

 bildo of Cuzco, INIS.) But the ahove 

 account of the aifair was given by the 

 Inca himself to Don Miguel Andrade 

 of Azangaro, and he denied positivelj- 

 that the church was set on fire. — Sub- 

 levacion de Tupac Amaru. AngeUs. 



1 Landa, tlie Governor of Paucar- 

 tambo, had formerly led an exploring 

 expedition into the montaua, in search 

 of the great river of Madre de Dios or 

 Punis. — Cuzco and Lima, p. 263. 



'^ This Cacique Saluiaraura was the 

 father of the late Dr. Justo Saliuaraiu-a, 

 of Cuzco, wlio published a little gene- 



alogical work in Paris, in 1S50, in 

 which he claimed descent from the 

 Incas. I hear, however, that his gene- 

 alogj- is apocryphal. In 1835 he wTote 

 to the editor of the Miiseo Erudito of 

 Cuzco, offering to write the traditions 

 of his fiiuiily in that periodical, as an 

 Inca. A Dr. Gallego, of Cuzco, re- 

 plied that no Inca was ever called 

 Sahuaraura, but that the Inca Kocca 

 once had a servant of that name, and 

 that he might possibly be descended 

 from him. This silenced Don Justo 

 for a long time. [Sahuay, a flame ; 

 raurac, miake. He had to light the 

 Inea's lire). 



