Chap. X. 



END OF THE INSUREECTION. 



167 



the Andes near Lima. The Indians of the villagres near 

 Caramporna had risen under one Felipe Velasco Tupac Inca 

 Yupanqui, who declared that the luca was not dead, but that 

 he was alive and crowned in the "Gran Pa}i;iti."^ Don 

 Felipe Carrera, who had been appointed Corregidor of Parina- 

 cochas, was sent to Huarochiri, and by a rapid march sue- • 

 ceeded in capturing the chief. Towards evening, however, 

 he was siu-rounded by a large body of Indians armed with 

 slings and poles, in a narrow and dangerous part of the road. 

 He retreated to an eminence with his prisoner, where he 

 defended himself until dark against the storm of stones, and 

 then escaped to Lima. After daily fights with the Indians 

 the rebellion was put down in June, 1783. Felipe Velasco, 

 and his lieutenant Cu-iaeo Flores, Avere hung in the great 

 square of Lima on July 7th, 1783.^ 



Having, after two years and a haK, succeeded in quelling 

 the insurrection, it remained for the viceroy to extirpate all 

 the innocent members of the family of the Incas, and all 

 Avho were connected with them by marriage. Ninety mem- 

 bers of the family were sent to Lima in chains, among whom 

 were Bartolome Tupac Amaru, the venerable great-uncle 

 of the Inca ; Marcela Pallocahua, the mother of the Inca's 

 Avife Micaela Bastidas; and Mauuela Condori, the wife of 

 Diego. Soon after his arrival at Lima Bartolome Tujiac 

 Amaru died at the extraordinaiy age of 125. A b'fe of 

 temperance had given this aged prince the strength to 

 endure months of solitary confinement at Cuzco, to sustain 

 blows from muskets and staves in the plaza, to undergo a 

 cruel journey on foot and in chains of 400 miles, but the 

 horrors of the Lima prison at length killed him. The un- 



- A fabulous regiou supposed to ex- 

 ist far to the eastward of the Andes, in 

 the unknown parts of the Amazonian 

 valley. 



•* Oficio de Don Fdipe Caneia, Cor- 



regidor de Puriiiacochas, Julio 12, 

 1788. Also Senteiicia diidoporel Virey 

 de Lima, contra los reos, Julio, ITSiJ. 

 Angelis. 



