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statesman, and Spain had many such, the viceroy placed full 

 powers in the hands of a wretch whose conduct was a mixture 

 of cowardice, atrocious cruelty, and incapacity. Fortune 

 decided in favour of the Spaniards, and the Inca fell into the 

 power of a man whose vile natm-e was excited to acts of 

 unequalled barbarity by the terror which his position and his 

 incompetence had caused him. I have felt obliged to relate 

 the shocking circumstances of the death of Tupac Amaru in 

 justice to the Indians ; for who can be surprised if afterwards 

 they frequently refused to give quarter to any of the hated race 

 of Chapetones, as they called the Spaniards ? and ho atrocity 

 was ever perpetrated by them which can be compared to 

 the execution of the Inca and his family, committed by the 

 deliberate sentence of a Spanish judge.^ 



5 WTien Seiior Zea, of Bogota, was being a Colombian, knew little or no- 

 iii Paris, Kotzebiie undertook a journey tiling about it. 



on pm-pose to obtain information from I Kotzebue, however, continued liis 

 him respecting Tupac Amaru, having j inquiries respecting Peru, wliich re- 

 conceived the idea of writing a tragedy i sidted in his play The VirfiiHg of the 

 founded on his rebelhon. But Zea, ! Sun, and hence Sheridan's Pizarro. 



