Chap. X. ARREST OF THP: INCA'S FAMILY. 1G.J 



Diego Tupac Amaru was permitted to retire to Tuiigasuea ; 

 and young Mariano Tupac Amaru, with liis cousin Andres 

 Mendegure, lived at Sicuani. But it would appear that the 

 Spanish authorities had no intention of keeping their faith 

 with these unfortimate Indians, and it was soon seen that 

 the distrust of Yilca Apasa was but too well founded. The 

 Spaniards were only waiting for an excuse before they com- 

 pleted the extirpation of the Avliole family of the Incas. Tliis 

 was soon found in a rebellion of the Indians of Marcapata 

 and Lauramarca, who, on the approach of a force under the 

 Corregidor Xecochea in January 1783, retired to the lofty 

 and almost impenetrable heights of Hapo and ^Vmpatuni. In 

 February their leader, Santos Huayhua, was captured with 

 his family, and torn to pieces by horses.^ 



Thus the desired excuse for treachery and faithlessness 

 was furnished. All the sm-viving members of the family of 

 the Inca Tupac Amaru Avere arrested, by order of the viceroy 

 of Peru." The accusations against them were frivolous, and, 

 so far as appears in the sentences, without a shadow of proof 

 to support them. Diego was accused of calling the Indians 

 his sons, of living in a way unbefitting a pardoned rebel, and 

 of performing funeral rites for his cousin the Inca ; young 

 Mariano Tupac Amaru of rescuing his lady-love on September 

 9th, who had been forced to become a novice in the monastery 

 of Santa Catalina in Cuzco ; Andres Mendagure of conducting 

 himself in a susj)icious way ; Manuela Castro, the mother of 

 Diego, of keeping up disaffection amongst the Indians ; and 

 Lorenzo and Simon Condori, the brothers-in-law of Diego, of 

 assisting the rebels in Marcapata. The rest of the family 

 were accused of being relations. 



Diego was imprisoned with liis kindred on the 15th of 

 April, 1783, by Don Eaymuudo Necochea, Corregidor of 



6 Report of the Cabildo of Cuzco. I regui, Viceroy of Tcru. Lima, Alartii 

 ? Report of Don Augustin de Jau- | 29, 1783. 



