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necessary supplies of goods, hardware, and 

 mules, from the Corregidores, at the prices 

 fixed by the latter, and on the credit which 

 they thought proper to give. 



Notwithstanding, however, the oppression 

 and injustice to which they were thus sub- 

 jected, it is probable that they would have 

 submitted to it, as it were, in despair for 

 a considerable period, had not other acts 

 of injustice furnished them with a leader. 

 Don J. G. Tupac-Amaru, having been un- 

 justly treated by the Audiencia of Lima, 

 and insulted by a corregidor, was stimu- 

 lated to take advantage of the combustible 

 materials, which were then in train and all 

 ready to be exploded by an adventurous 

 hand. 



At the instigation of Tupac-Amaru, a 

 spirit of resistance soon spread itself for 

 three hundred leagues through the interior 



