152 PRISONERS TAKEN WITH AMARU. Chap. IX. 



day General del Valle himg sixty-seven Indian prisoners 

 at Tinta, whose heads lie stuck on poles by the road-side.^ 

 Diego Tuj)ac Amaru, his nephew Andres Mendagure, and 

 Mariano, the second son of the Inca, fortunately escaped. 



On the 8th of April Francisco, the aged uncle of the Inca,'* 

 was also seized, and the prisoners were marched bareheaded 

 into Cuzco, the \asitador Areche coming out as far as Urcos 

 to meet them. They were all separated from each other, 

 and told that they would not meet again until the day of 

 execution. 



The chief prisoners were the Inca Tupac Amaru, his wife, 

 his two sons Hipolito and Fernando, liis uncle Francisco, 

 his brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas, liis maternal cousin 

 Patricio Noguera, liis cousin Cecilia Tupac Amaru with her 

 husband Pedro Mendagure, a number of captains in the 

 Inca's anny and other officials, and Aliaga's executioner 

 named Antonio Oblitas,^ a negro slave. 



It is necessary to record the diabolical cruelties of the 

 visitador Areche, and his assistant IMatta Linares, in order 

 to complete the naiTative of the ill-fated Inca's life, and 

 to show into whose hands the fate of the Peruvian Indians 

 was placed by the Spanish viceroy, and of what devilish 

 atrocities they were capable. On the 15th of May, 1781, 

 the visitador Areche pronounced a lengthy sentence, in which 

 he declared that it was necessary to hasten its execution, 

 in order to convince the Indians that it was not impossible 

 to put a man of such elevated rank to death, merely because 

 he was the heir of the Incas of Peru. He then accused the 

 Inca of rebellion, of destroying the ohrajes, of aboKshing 

 the mita, and of causing pictures to be painted of himself 



^ There is said to be a pictiire in ; Incas embroidered in gold at the cor- 

 the church at Tinta representing this ners. 

 massacre. \ ^ A list of the prisoners is given 



* He is said to have been ilressed amongst the AngelLs papers, 

 in Incarial robes, with the arms of the 



