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banes*, who, together with a lay brother, were slain in the above year ('1742), by 

 the insurgents of the mountain of salt, at the time when roads were making to fa- 

 cilitate the passage of the troops destined by the viceroy to surprize and obtain 

 possession of the rebel chief. Friars Francisco Otasua, and Salvador Pandof, not- 

 withstanding this cruel massacre of their brethren, ventured to penetrate as far as 

 Quimiri, where they remained during the space of three months, employing their 

 most earnest endeavours to prevail on the rebel to surrender, but without effedl. 

 With a full persuasion of his obstinacy and perfidy, they retired, after an exposure 

 to the most indignant treatment. Through a similar conviftion, the other eccle- 

 siastics yielded at length to the power of the rebel, and entirely abandoned their 

 missions. 



In the year 1779, at which time the present most venerable guardian of the 

 Order of Franciscan Monks of Lima, father Joseph Sanchez, was prelate of Ocopa, 

 an entrance was made into the mountainous territory, with a view to the restoration 

 of the above-mentioned missions on the mountain of salt. The college undertook 

 to defray the expences of opening a road, for the psssage of cattle, from Palca to 

 Chanchamayo; and the.construftion of a fort, to be provided with troops to repel 

 the invasions of the enemy, was to be at the charge of the royal treasury. This 

 was effected, and a settlement made of Indians residing on the frontiers ; but on 

 consideration of the risk of being intercepted by the barbarians, to which those 

 who penetrated into the interior, by the new road over the broken ground of 

 Palca, were constantly exposed, and for various other cogent reasons which pre- 

 sented themselves, the viceroy, in 1784, ordered the fort to be demolished, and 

 the troops, settlers, and missionaries, to be withdrawn. 



In the year 1787, it was resolved by the supreme authority, to open a new road, 

 secure from the invasion of the barbarians, on the side of the valley of Vitoc. 

 The direftion and management of this enterprise were confided to Don Juan Maria 

 Galves, governor and intendant of Tarma, who superintended the progress of the 

 workmen with so much activity and zeal, that in the year 1788, travellers and 

 beasts of burden were enabled to pass to the above-mentioned valley, where a fort 

 was construfted, and provided with a respectable garrison. On this occasion I 

 contributed a supply of provisions and working tools, in addition to which I caused 

 a chapel and dwelling-house to be built for two missionaries, who still remain there 

 in the enjoyment of the benefices afterwards conferred on them. 



* Tena, lib. iii. p. 76. f Tena, lib. ii. p. 213 et 228; lib. iii. p. 76. 



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