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invaders of his country ; the other charges against him 
comprised acts which were, and had been, the common 
usage of the kings of Peru for ages. But as his corrupt 
judges had predetermined, he was found guilty, and 
condemned to be burned alive ! While the wicked Val~ 
verde, the friar to the banditti, prostituted his sacred 
calling by signing with his own hand the warrant for 
his execution, and with sanctified hypocrisy attended 
the injured Atabalipa at the place of execution, and 
there conjured the wretched inca to abjure the worship 
of the sun, and turn to that faith which had for its 
apparent followers men who were capable of committing 
acts at which the true Christian turns away with horror. 
The most cruel measures were constantlv resorted to 
in order to keep the Peruvians in subjection. Tupac 
Amaru, the heir of their last king, retreated to the 
mountains, where he continued to live for some time 
in privacy and peace ; but even here he was discovered, 
and being soon surrounded by troops which were sent 
out against him by the destroyers of his country, he 
was obliged to surrender, and was conveyed to a dun- 
geon, when the viceroy, Francis de Toledo, caused him 
to be accused of crimes which he had never committed. 
But notwithstanding that his very accusers were well 
aware of his entire innocence of the charges they had 
instituted against him, he was beheaded in the year 
1571, while all the other descendants of the inca 
shared the same fate ; but such was the veneration in 
which Tupac Amaru was held by the Peruvians, that 
while his cruel conquerors were leading him to execu- 
