Chap. IX. AMARU BETRAYED TO THE SPANIAllDS. 1^)1 



found to be gone. Tupac had intended a stratagem, and 

 had retired into an unfrequented ravine: on the 21st a 

 snow-storm favoured his design, and his plan would have 

 succeeded, had not a traitor, named Zunuario de Castro, 

 given Valle notice of his movements. The Spaniards 

 changed their position, and the Inca passed the night in 

 vainly searching for it. 



General del Valle was upwards of seventy years of age, 

 and, unable longer to endure the excessive cold of the 

 mountains, he descended into the valley of the Vileamayu, 

 and captured Quiquijana, hanging the Cacique Luis Poma 

 Inca, who defended it. On the 6th of April the Spanish 

 army advanced up the valley, meeting with considerable 

 opposition, and reached Checacupe early in the day. Near 

 this village the Inca had taken up a position, defended by 

 a ditch and parapet stretching across the valley, and manned 

 by 20,000 men, but he had neglected to provide any defence 

 for his flanks. A Spanish division stole unperceived to 

 the back of the position, wliile the main body assaulted it 

 in front ; and after an heroic defence the Indians, attacked 

 both in front and rear, fell back to another entrenched 

 position at Combapata, a league from Tiuta, where the 

 village was surrounded by a mud wall, covered at the top 

 with thorny bushes. The Spaniards, following up their 

 success, played upon the village Avith their field-pieces for 

 several hours, then carried the position at the point of tlie 

 bayonet, and made a bloody entry into Tinta. 



Tupac Amaru, with his wife and three sons, fled to Lanqui, 

 a village about twenty miles to the westward, on the shores 

 of a wild Alpine lake. Here he intended to have rallied 

 his disordered troops, but he was betrayed by one of his 

 own officers, named Ventura Landacta, A\ho, assisted by the 

 cm-a of the place, basely delivered the illustrious Inca and 

 his family into tlu' hands ol the Spaniards. Oji the same 



