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THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC. 



which, however, from the fatigue of his mules, and their re- 

 duced number, was necessarily small, and if it was enough to 

 replace his loss, he thought he had made a successful trip, 

 though after two or three months' absence he had gained no- 

 thing. 



After the mules were paid for, the corregid&r no longer em- 

 ployed the Indian, to afford him an opportunity of paying other 

 debts, all of which were kept strictly under separate heads; 

 but he required payment in cloth and the products of his little 

 farm or garden. Sometimes he distributed more mules, though 

 the Indian did not require them, in order to increase the recua 

 or drove, that he might have the advantage of employing a 

 greater number. 



It not unfrequently happened, that the mules, from being 

 driven hundreds of leagues, from change of climate and pas- 

 ture, grew sick and died, even in a day or two after they had 

 been delivered to the Indian. An instance of this kind feli 

 under the notice of Ulloa in 1742. 



Sometimes they distributed or reparted wines, brandies, 

 olives, or oil, which the Indians never used. Fol* a botija of 

 brandy, (aguardiente), they were charged from seventy to 

 eighty dollars, and if they could dispose of it for ten or twelve, 

 they esteemed themselves fortunate. 



Such was the practice of the repartimiento, and truly does 

 Ulloa exclaim, ^'the corregid&res must have been abandoned 

 by the hand of God, to practice such iniquities !" 



In 1780, the corregid6r of Chayenta, Don Joaquin de Aloz, 

 and the corregid&r of Tinta, Don Antonio Arriaga, made three 

 repartimientos in one year. The Indians, unable to bear such 

 oppression, rose, put to death the corregid&res, and every 

 Spaniard that fell into their hands. The veteran troops march- 

 ed from Lima and Buenos Ayres to the interior of Peru, and 

 from Jujui to Cuzco became a bloody theatre of cruelty and 

 vengeance. After a desolating war of three years, the In- 

 dians again fell under the Spanish yoke, and their chief ca- 

 cique, Tupac Amaru, after seeing his wife and children coldly 

 butchered before his eyes, was sentenced to death by the 

 Spanish authorities. The executioner tore out his tongue, and 



