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dressed in the imperial insignia of the uncu or mantle, and 

 mascapaicha or head-dress ; and others representing the tri- 

 nmph of his arms at Sangarara. He condemned his victim 

 to behold the execution of his wife, his son, his uncle, his 

 brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas, and of his captains ; to have 

 his tongue cut out, and afterwards to have liis limbs secured 

 to the girths of four horses dragging diiferent ways, and thus 

 to be torn in pieces. His body to be burnt on the heights 

 of Piechu, his head to be stuck on a pole at Tinta, one arm 

 at Tungasuca, the other in Caravaya, a leg in Chumbivilicas, 

 and another in Lampa. His houses to be demolished, their 

 sites strewni ^itli salt, all his goods to be confiscated, all his 

 relations declared infamous, all documents relating to his 

 descent to be burnt by the hangman, all dresses used by the 

 Incas or caciques to be prohibited, all pictures of tlie Incas 

 to be seized and burnt, the representation of Quichua dramas 

 to be forbidden, all the musical instruments of the Indians 

 to be destroyed, all signs of moiu-ning for the Incas to be 

 forbidden, all Indians to give up their national costumes, 

 and dress henceforth in the Spanish fashion, and the use of 

 the Quichua language to be prohibited. 



In the annals of barbarism there is probably not to be 

 found a document equalling this in savage wickedness and 

 imbecile absurdity : and this was written by a Spanish judge 

 only eighty years ago.^ 



This hideous cruelty was literally carried into effect, in 

 'all its revolting details. Ou Friday the 18th of May, 1781, 

 after the great square had been surromided by Spanish and 

 negro troops, ten persons came forth from the church of the 

 Jesuits. One of these was the Inca Tupac Amaru, who had, 

 in the earlv morning, been visited in prison by Areche, and 



6 It is printed in the appendix to the Spanish edition of Oen. Sliller's 

 Memoirs, vol. i. 



