(SI GOT/T) OMTAMEIiTS OF THE NATIVES. 
supposed that the Andes of Loxa, eelehrated for their forests 
of cinchona, were only twenty leagues distant from the lake 
Parima, or the banks of the Eio Branco. This proximity 
procimed credit to the tidings of the flight of the Inca into 
the forests of Guiana, and the i-emoval of the treasures of 
Cuzco to the easternmost parts of that countiy. iNo doubt 
in going up towards the east, either by the Meta or by the 
Amazon, the civilization of the natives, between the P'uruz, 
the Jupura, and the Iquiari, was obsen-ed to increase. 
They possessed amulets, little idols of molten gold, and 
chairs, elegantly carved ; but these traces of dawning civi- 
lization are far distant from those cities and houses ot" stone 
described by Ealeigh and those who followed him. \Vo 
have made drawings of some ruins of great edifices cast of 
the Cordilleras, when going down from Loxa towards the 
Amazon, in the province of Jaen de Braeamoros ; and thus 
far the Incas had earned their arms, their religion, and 
their arts. The inhabitants of the Orinoco were also, before 
the conquest, when abandoned to themselves, somewhat 
more civilized than the independent hordes of our clays. 
They had populous villages along the river, and a regular 
success ag,iinst the Spaniards. He retired at length into the mountains 
and thick forests of Vilcabamba, which are accessible either by Hnamanga 
and Antahuaylla, or by the valley of Yucay, north of Cuzco. Of the 
two sons of Manco-lnca, the eldest, Sat/ri-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-lnca, Tttpac-Amani, was carried off by stratagem from 
the forests of Vilcahamba, and beheaded on pretext of a conspiracy 
formed agaiiyt the Spanish usurpers. 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. (Gar- 
cilasso, vol. ii, p. 194, 480, and 501.) It is interesting to inquire whe- 
ther any other princes of the family of Mauco-Capac have remained in 
the forests of Vilcabamba, and if there still exist any descendants of the 
Incas of Peru between the -Apnrimac and the Beni. This suppfisition 
gave rise in 1741 to the famous rebellion of the Chuncocs, and to that of 
theAmages and Campoes led on by their chief Juan Santos, called the 
false -\tahual|)a. The late political events of Spain have liberated from 
prison the remains of the family of J ose Gabriel Coudorcanqui, an artful and 
intrepid man, who, under the name of the Inca Tupac-Amarn, attempted in 
1781 that restoration of the ancient dynasty which Raleigh had projected 
in the time of Queen Elizidjeih. 
