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Hondius supposed, that the Andes of Loxa, 

 celebrated for their forests of cinchona, were 



went beyond the banks o£ the Beni. The following is what I 

 learnt with certainty respecting this emigration of the family 

 of the Inca, some sad vestiges of which J saw on passing by 

 Caxamarca. Manco-fnca, acknowledged as the legitimate 

 successor of Atahualpa, made war without success against 

 the Spaniards. He retired at length into the mountains 

 and thick forests of Vilcabamba, which are accessible either 

 by Huamanga and Antahuaylla, or by the valley of Yucay 

 north ofCuzco. Of the two sons of Manco-lnca, the eldest, 

 Sayri-Tupac, surrendered himself to the Spaniards, upon the 

 invitation of the viceroy of Peru, Hurtado de Mendoza. 

 He was received with great pomp at Lima, was baptized 

 there, and died peaceably in the fine valley of Yucay. The 

 youngest son of Manco-Inca, Tupac- Amaru, was carried off 

 by stratagem from the forests of Vilcabamba, and beheaded 

 on pretext of a conspiracy formed against the Spanish usur- 

 pers. At the same period, thirty five distant relations of the 

 Inca Atahualpa were seized, and conveyed to Lima, in order 

 to remain under the inspection of the Audiencia. (Garcilasso, 

 Vol. 2, p. 194, 480, and 501.) It is interesting to inquire, 

 whether any other princes of the family of Manco-Capac have 

 remained in the forests of Vilcabamba, and if there still exist 

 any descendants of the Incas of Peru between the Apurimac 

 and the Beni. This supposition gave rise in 1741 to the 

 famous rebellion of the Chuneoes, and to that of the Amajes 

 and Campoes led on by their chief, Juan Santos, called the 

 false Atahualpa. The late political events of Spain have li- 

 berated from prison the remains of the family of Jose Gabriel 

 Condorcanqui, an artful and intrepid man, who, under the 

 name of the Inca Tupac-Amaru, attempted in 1781 that re- 

 storation of the ancient dynasty, which Raleigh had projected 

 in the time of queen Elizabeth. 



