CJiiAi-. XI. GREAT FAMILIES OF AZANGAIio. 1}>H 



her head, is of great merit, and exactly resembles the ' Santa 

 Justa ' of Murillo in the Duke of Sutherland's collection. On 

 the left is a picture of the ' Woman taken in Adultery,' and 

 an excellent copy of tlie well-known ' Worshipping of the 

 Magi,' by Rubens, in the Madrid gallery. In a side chapel 

 there is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci's ' Last Supper,' with 

 portraits of two caciques — the heads of the two great families 

 of Azaugero — with their wives, one of them very pretty, 

 looking on in a corner. These copies, which are excellent, 

 must have been procured from Europe at very great expense. 

 The author of all this magnificence, according to the 

 inscription on his portrait, which is fixed in a handsome gilt 

 frame by the side of the chancel arch, was the Bachiller 

 Dr. Don Basco Bernardo Lopez de Cangas, a native of Cuzco, 

 and Cura of Azangaro. The interior decorations were com- 

 pleted on January 12th, 1758, and the cura died in 1771. 

 He must have been possessed of enormous wealth, to have 

 enabled him thus to lieautify and adorn his church with 

 such lavish profusion. 



In the days of the Incas the two great families of Azan- 

 garo, whose heads ranked as Curacas, were the Murumall- 

 cucalcinas and Chuquihuancas ; and they retained the office of 

 cacique until recent Spanish times. The Murumallcucalcina 

 family is now extinct : they lived in the town, and a portion 

 of their house still remains, called the Sondor-huasi, dating 

 from the time of the Incas, and the greatest curiosity in 

 the place. It is a circular building, about twelve feet in 

 diameter, with walls twelve feet high, of mud and straw, 

 very strong and thick. The dome-shaped roof of thatch 

 also dates from the time of the Incas. The outside coating- 

 consists of a layer of stipa ychu, two feet thick, placed in 

 very regular rows, and most carefully finished, so as to 

 present a smooth surface to the weather. Next there is a 

 thick layer of tlie samt^ grass placed horizontally, netted 



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