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EXECUTION OP THE INCA 



CllAP. IX. 



urged to betray all the accomplices in his rebellion.'' " You 

 and I," he replied, "are the only conspirators: you for 

 having oppressed the country with exactions which were 

 unendurable, and I for having wished to free the people 

 from such tyranny."** The Inca's companions in misfortune 

 were his wife Micaela, his sons Hipolito and Fernando, his 

 brother-in-law Antonio Bastidas, his uncle Francisco Tupac 

 Amaru, Tomasa Condemaita the Cacica of Acos, Jose Verdejo 

 and Andres Castelo, captains in the Inca's army, and the 

 executioner Oblitas. 



Verdejo, Castelo, Oblitas, and Bastidas were hung at once. 

 The rest were heavily chained, tied up in the bags which are 

 used for carrying the mate or Paraguay tea, and dragged 

 backwards into the centre of the square by horses. Francisco 

 and Hipolito Tupac Amaru, the one an old man verging on 

 fourscore years, the other a youth of twenty, then had their 

 tongues cut out, and, with Tomasa Condemaita, were garrotted 

 by an u-on screw, the first that had been seen in Cuzco. 

 Micaela, the wife of the Inca, was then placed on the same 

 scaffold, her tongue was cut out, and the screw was placed 

 round her neck in presence of her husband ; but she suffered 

 cruelly, because her neck was so small that the screw failed 

 to strangle her. The executioners then placed a lasso round 

 her neck, and pulled different Avays, at the same time kick- 

 ing her in the stomach and bosom until they succeeded in 

 killing her. The Inca was then taken into the centre of 

 the square, liis chains were taken off, and liis tongue was cut 

 out. He was then thrown on the ground; lassos, secured to 

 the girths of four horses, were fastened to liis wTists and 

 ankles, and the horses were made to drag different ways, " a 

 spectacle never before seen at Cuzco." As the unfortunate 



' One axjcoimt says that he was torr 

 turecl until one arm was dislocated, by 

 the garruche, by order of Matta Linares. 



Giizinun MS8. 



» Letter from Gen. dtl Valle, 8ept. 

 ;-J0, 1781. 



