164 EXECUTION OF VILCA APASA. Chap. X. 



Diego Tupac Amaru received liis pardon at Sicuani, from 

 General del Valle in the name of the viceroy, on January 26th, 

 1782 ; and on the same day the Bishop of Cuzco* solemnly 

 absolved him in the church. But Vilca Apasa, Alejandro 

 Calisaya, and other chiefs of Diego's army, refused to submit, 

 and continued in arms in the provinces of Caravaya and 

 Azangaro. General del Valle marched against them in 

 March 1782, and took most of them prisoners. Vilca Apasa 

 was captured in his native village of Tapa-tapa, eighteen 

 miles east of Azangaro, where his descendants still live. He 

 was torn to pieces by horses in the plaza of Azangaro, and 

 his limbs were stuck on poles by the road-side.^ An old lady 

 told me that she could remember seeing one of his arms on 

 a pole near her father's house. Calisaya, and many others, 

 were hung. The Spanish General had the cruelty to force 

 Diego Tupac Amaru to accompany him, and to mtness the 

 execution of his old friends. Del Valle then marched over 

 the Cordilleras of Lauramarca and Ausangate, where the 

 Indians had been in rebellion, taking Diego with him in a 

 sort of triumph, and returned to Cuzco in August. The old 

 general was taken ill soon afterwards, and died at Cuzco on 

 the 4tli of September, leaving the command of the troops to 

 Don Gabriel de Aviles. 



■* The Bishop of Cuzco, Dr. Don 

 Juan Manuel Moscoso y Peralta, after- 

 warda had twenty-two accusationf? or 

 charges brought against liiui ci lunected 

 with this reheUion, wliirli lie answered 

 in detail in a work publi.slied at Madrid. 

 One is that he excommunicated a priest 

 for betraying the secrets of the Indians 

 told under the seal of confession ; ano- 

 ther that he tried to save the hves of 

 several Indian rebels ; anotlier that he 

 asked for a general pardon after the 

 death of the Inca; another that he j)er- 

 mitted Mariano Tupac Amaru to cele- 

 brate the funeral of his father, &c. If 

 these accusations were true, thej^ all | viri. July 14. 1782 

 redound to tlie bishop's honour ; and 



it is to be regretted that he was so 

 anxious to defend himself against 

 them. At the end of his book there are 

 some letters to him from Diego Tupac 

 Amaru. " Inocencia justificada contra 

 los urtifieios de la calumida. Papel 

 que escribio en defensa de su honor y 

 distinguidos servicios hechos con motivo 

 de la rebelion del Reyno del Peru, por 

 Jose Gabriel Tupac Amaru: el Illus- 

 trissimo Senor Bon Juan Manuel 

 Moscoso y Peralta, Obispo del Cuzco." 

 (Fol. Mackid). 



^ Oficio del Inspector Don Jos^ del 

 Valle, al Virey de Buenos Ayres. Aya- 



