Chap. IX. 



AND HIS FAMILY. 



155 



Lica's body was tliiis raised iuto the air, liis youugest sou 

 Fernando, a child of ten years, who had been forced to 

 witness this horrible massacre of his relations, uttered a heart- 

 rending shriek, the knell of which continued to ring in the 

 ears of those who heard it to their dying day." The horses 

 did not pull at tlie same time, and the body remained 

 suspended like a spider for many minutes, until at last the 

 brutal miscreant Areche, who was looking on from a window 

 in the College of the Jesuits, caused the head to be cut off.' 

 The cliild Fernando was then passed under the scaffold, and 

 sentenced to be banished for life to one of the penal settle- 

 ments in Africa. 



Many of the Spanish citizens were present, but not an 

 Indian was to be seen. They afterwards declared that, while 

 the horses were torturing the Inca, a gi-eat wind arose, with 

 torrents of rain, and that even the elements felt the death of 

 the Inca, whom the inhuman and impious Spaniards were 

 torturing with such cruelty.^ 



The heads, bodies, and limbs of the victims were sent to 

 the different towns of Peru, and to the villages round Cuzco,^ 

 in order to strike terror into the hearts of the Indians ; but 

 this proceeding of course had the opposite effect, and goaded 

 them to fury. By the humane exertions of the Inca the war 

 had hitherto been carried on without unnecessary bloodshed, 

 and he had always protected unarmed persons and women ; 

 but, after the perpetration of these barbarities in Cuzco, it 

 became a war of extermination, and during the following year 

 not less than 80,000 people fell victims to the vengeance of 

 the Indian and Spanish troops. 



* Oue of these was Dr. Don Toribio 

 Carrasco, afterwards Cuxa of Beleui in 

 Ciizco, who, in lS35, mentioned the 

 circiuustance, and tlic impression it 

 had made, to Gen. Miller. 



1 These executions, in :dl their re- 

 volting details, were eertiiied by Juau 



Bantisfci Gamarra, pubhc notiiiy to the 

 Cabildo of Ciizco, in u dociunent dated 

 May 20, 1781. 



- Report «f the Cabildo of Cuzco. 



* The edict, fixing tiio destinations 

 of the difleniit parts of each victun, is 

 printed amongst the papers in Angelis. 



