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Panataguas and Callisecas, proceeded, in the year 1673, to the valley of Jauxa. 

 From the town of Andamarca*, he penetrated on foot into the interior, accom- 

 panied by a lay priest, and two lay brothers, without any provision beside a small 

 store of cheese and roasted maize ; and after having travelled eight days over the 

 most rugged paths imaginable, reached the land of the idolatrous Campas, who 

 received him with outward demonstrations of joy and benevolence. He there 

 founded a town on which he bestowed the name of Santa Cruz of Sonomoro. He 

 was visitedf by the tribes of Pangoas, Menearos, Anapatis, and Pilcosumis, who 

 resided in the southern part ; by the Satipos, Copiris, and Tomirisatis, dwelling- 

 on the northern side ; and by the Cobaros and Pisiataris, inhabiting the western 

 quarter. All these tribes are known by the common appellation of Andes or 

 Campas ; but are distinguished among themselves by the names above pointed out,^ 

 some of them derived from the rivers on the banks of which they reside ; others 

 from the particular distri£ls or quarters they inhabit ; and others, again, from the 

 chiefs by whom they are governed. 



The venerable servant of God, friar Francisco Izquierdo, having noticed the 

 abundant harvest discovered by father Biedma in Sonomoro, set out from Quimirij 

 in the year 1674, with three companions, to afford him his spiritual aid. A con* 

 sultation having been holden between the two, relative to the difficulty of the en- 

 trance by Andamarca } and it having been agreed, that the access from Quimiri, 

 by the river Perene, was easier and more practicable, they resolved that the en- 

 trances should be made by that route, and that, for the relief of the fathers, a 

 settlement should be formed between Santa Cruz and Ouimiri, in the distrift named 

 PIchana, where many infidels who had manifested a desire to become christians re- 

 sided. With this intention, father Izquierdo proceeded, without lossof time, to the site 

 above referred to ; but had scarcely founded the convent and church, when an 

 Indian named Mangore, at the head of a fadlion, possessed with a diabolical fury, 

 entered the conventj, accompanied by his confederates. Instantly this infernal 

 crew discharged a shower of arrows on father Izquierdo, on a lay brother, and on 

 an Indian boy who had been converted to Christianity : they fell, and were so 

 effectually knitted together by the arrows of the assassins, that they appeared to 

 be one and the same body, belonging to an animal armed with quills. Glutted 

 with the blood of these innocent vidlims, Mangore ascended, with his partisans, 

 the river Perene, with a fixed resolution to put to death all the converters. On 



* Amich, p. 11. 



t Tena, lib. i. p. 35. 

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t Amich, p. 28. 



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