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crossed a range of mountains, and laid siege to the town of 

 Paucartambo, on the banks of the rapid river of the same 

 name, while his videttes hovered over the heights above the 

 Vilcamayu valley, threatening the towns of Calca, Pissac, and 

 Taray. Don Joso Antonio Vivar was sent to occupy the 

 bridge at Urubamba, and watch the movements of the 

 Indians. Paucartambo, and a strong fort built on a rocky 

 height on tlie opposite side of the river, were desperately 

 defended by the Spaniards under Don Lorenzo Lechuga, who 

 had fortified and garrisoned the place. Astete was sent 

 across the bridge at Urubamba, with 400 men, to relieve it ; 

 they had several encounters with the Indians on the march, 

 and on reaching the besieged town they found that Lechuga 

 had expended all his ammunition ; but the besieging force, 

 under Diego Tupac Amaru, fell back towards Tinta, on the 

 aj)proach of Astete, on the 18th of January, 1781, Having 

 re-organized his army at Tinta, the Inca, accompanied by his 

 cousin Diego, made another attack upon Paucartambo on the 

 11th of February; but, after several fruitless assaults, the 

 Indian army finally retreated to Tinta on the 14th.*' 



Tupac Amaru had now assembled a force of 60,000 men 

 in and around Tinta ; but they were wholly undisciplined, 

 and only a few hundi-eds were armed with muskets. All the 

 caciques in Peru, with the exception of sixteen,^ had, however, 

 declared in favour of the Inca; and the whole Indian and 



® Hist or ia de lo acaecido en el Real \ Cliuquihuanca of Azangaro. 



Asunto de Paucartambo, en la rebelion \ Game of Paruro. 



sucitada por Jose' Gabriel Tupac Ama- \ Esi^inosa of Catoca. 



ru. A manuscript accouut of the siege Carlos Visa of Achalla. 



of Paucartambo, by Fray RajTnundo Chuqiiicallata of Saman. 



Gonzalez, Religioso Mercedario, writ- | Huambo Tupa of Yauri. 



ten in 1782. Tlie original ia still at Callu of Sicnani. 



Paucartambo, where I saw it, and there Aronis of Checacupe. 



are two or three copies at Cuzco. Cotjicellapa of Caravaya, 



7 Namely : — Sahuaraura of Oropesa. 



Pumacagua of Chinchero, Choquechua of Belom, in Cuzco. 



Rosas of Anta. i Bustinza Utfucana of S'"- Anna, in 



Sucacahua of Umacliiri. Cuzco. — Letter from Dr. Moscoso, 



Huaranca of Santa Rosa. Bishop of Cuzco. 



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