1(56 EXECUTION OF DIEGO AND HIS FRIENDS. Chap. X. 



Quispicanchi f while Mariano Tupac Amaru and Andres 

 Mendagure were sent to Lima, put on board a sliip, butcliered 

 at sea, and their bodies thrown overboard. The vulture 

 Matta Linares, who was still an Oidor of the Audienica at 

 Lima, scented carrion from afar, and arrived at Cuzco on 

 April 20th, with the same extraordinary judicial powers as 

 had previously been given by the viceroy to Areche. On 

 the 17th of July he sentenced Diego Tupac Amaru to be 

 dragged at the tail of a mule, with a rope round his neck, to 

 the j)lace of execution in the plaza of Cuzco, there to be hung 

 and quartered, his body and limbs to be distributed amongst 

 the towns of Tungasuca, Lam'amarca, Paucartambo, and 

 Galea, his goods to be confiscated, and his houses destroyed ; 

 his mother, Marcela Castro, to be hung and quartered, and 

 her body to be burnt in the plaza ; Lorenzo and Simon 

 Condori to be hung ; and Manuela Titu Condori, the wife of 

 Dieo;o, to be banished for life.^ These sentences were exe- 

 cuted on the 19th of July 1783 ; and Matta Linares obliged 

 the good cm-a of Sicuani, Dr. Valdez, by whose persuasion, as 

 the ancient friend of the Inca Tupac Amaru, Diego had been 

 induced to accept the treacherous pardon, to witness the exe- 

 cutions.^ Matta Linares is still remembered in Cuzco for 

 his barbarous, immoral, and sneaking conduct. He died in 

 Spain in about 1818, having been one of the first among 

 the unworthy Spaniards who declared in favour of Joseph 

 Buonaparte. 



At about the time of Diego's execution, the last spark of 

 insurrection was trampled out in Huarochiri, a province in 



s Oficio de Don Gabriel cle Aviles, 

 a Don Sebastian de Segurola. Ciizeo. 



s Sentencia contra el reo Tupac 

 Amaru, y demas acomplices, pronun- 

 ciada por Don Gabriel de Aviles, y 

 Do^i Bfiiito d-e la Matta Linares. July, 



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1 Information from Don Luis Qui- 



Dones of Azangaro. Dr. Yaldez died 

 in 1816. Don Pablo Pimentel, the 

 •worthy Subprefect of Caravaya, told me 

 that he remembered the old emu well, 

 as a tall man Avith a stately walk, who 

 always gave him a dollar when he met 

 liim in Sicuani. 



