ClIAP. X. 



HIS EXECUTION. 



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chiefly remembered by bis melancholy love-sougs and despe- 

 didas} 



Ramirez, immediately after the battle of Umachii-i, marched 

 to Cuzco, where he arrived on the 25th ; bnt he detached a 

 portion of his troops in })ursuit of the Indians, wlio were 

 again defeated close to the town of Azangaro. The Spaniards 

 cut off the ears of all then- prisoners, flogged them cruelly, 

 and sent them to tell their comrades that they would be 

 treated in the same way unless they instantly laid do^vn their 

 arms. The Indians fled over the hills, followed by the 

 Spaniards, who again defeated them on a hill near Asillo, 

 six leagues to the north. Amongst the prisoners at Asillo 

 were the mutilated Indians who had been sent to terrify the 

 rest, still bravely fighting against their tyrants. Of such 

 heroism is the usually meek and docile Indian capable.^ 



After the battle of Umachiri, Pumacagua had escaped to 

 the heights of Marangani ; but he was betrayed by an Indian 

 whom he had sent down to buy some food, and brought a 

 prisoner into Sicuani. After a sort of confession had been 

 extorted from him, he was hung, not even with a respectable 

 halter, but with a lasso, being seventy-seven years of age. 

 Jose, Mariano, and Vicente Angulo, Gabriel Bejar, and many 

 others were shot at Cuzco by Eamirez, who, in the following 

 June, again united his forces with those of General Pezuela, 

 in Upper Peru. Thus ended the last great rising of the 

 Indians under one of their own chiefs, after a campaign which 

 lasted ten months. 



Ten years after the death of Pumacagua every Spanish 



1 In October, 1823, Gen. Miller saw 

 the fair object of the poet Melgar's 

 adoration, at Camana, on the coast of 

 Peni. She was a native of Areqnipa, 

 with light hair, blue eyes, and a fair 

 clear complexion. She refused Mclgar, 

 married another, and, being obhged 

 to flee with her husband to escape the 



persecution of the Royalists, found 

 an asylum on the banks of the river 

 Camana. Her maiden name was Pu- 

 redes. — Miller's Memoirs, ii. p. 90. 



Melgar's brother is now Minister of 

 Foreign Ail'airs at Luna. 



- lufunnation from Don Luis Qui- 

 iiones of Azangaro. 



