158 PROGRESS OF THE REBELLION Chap. X. 



CHAPTER X. 



DIEGO TUPAC AMARU — FATE OF THE INOA'S FAMILY — 

 INSURRECTION OF PUMACAGUA. 



While the events occurred in the valley of Vilcamayii which 

 ended in the capture of the Inca Tupac Amaru and his family, 

 the whole of the CoUao was in a state of insurrection, and all 

 Spaniards had to escape for their lives to Puno, La Paz, or 

 Arequipa. 



Don Joaquim Antonio de Orellana,^ Governor of Puno, 

 made a most gallant defence of that town, with a force 

 consisting of 180 musketeers, 647 pikemen, 44 artillery- 

 men with 4 guns, and 254 cavalry. He retreated behind 

 his entrenchments when the Inca advanced as far as Lampa, 

 in December 1780 ; but in February 1781, in spite of the 

 heavy rains, he marched to Lampa, where he flogged an In- 

 dian until he confessed that his rebel countrymen were on an 

 adjacent mountain called Catacora. Orellana found the rebel 

 army drawn up in an almost inaccessible position, with colours 

 flying ; and, while seeking for a place where his troops might 

 ascend, they suffered from a storm of hail and snow. The 

 Spaniards were divided into two assaulting parties, but the 

 showers of stones which the Indians hurled from their slings 

 obliged them to retreat, and Orellana himself was wounded in 

 the jaw. 



He found it prudent to fall back towards Puno, and, on 



' Orellana was a native of Ciienca, and descended from the great navigator 

 of the Amazons. 



