How Manco Inca retired into the fastnesses of the Andes with great treasure and many people , and how Uilla Tupac marched with an army to the provinces of the Huanca-chupachos.

I will now relate what happened to the Inca after his famous defeat by Rodrigo Orgoñez, when captain Ruy Diaz and the other Christian captives were liberated. When the Inca saw 209that Orgoñez had no other intention than to capture and kill him, and had slain many of his men and captured some of his women, he was much disturbed and alarmed, feeling that his gods had forgotten him for ever, while he had not sufficient authority to assemble another army to follow up the war. So, with those who stood by him and their women and servants and all his treasure, which was not small, he took refuge in the province of Viticos, a remote part of the Andes towards the south. He considered that there he would be safe from his enemies the Christians, and would not hear the neighing and stamping of their horses nor would their trenchant swords any more slash the flesh of his people. The Huillac Umu, seeing the determination of the Inca, believing that as minister of the Devil and a High Priest he would be held in great veneration, and that all would respect him and guard his ancient honour, resolved not to exile himself from the province of Cuzco, and declined to go with the Inca. Rodrigo Orgoñez had scarcely left the river, when the Inca assembled those of his people who were going with him and said that, their gods having allowed their enemies to get possession of the Empire of the Incas Yupanquis, their ancestors, they must retreat into the deepest recesses of the Andes where they could live secure, and without fear of destruction or of placing their persons in the power of the Christians, which was what the latter most desired. The Indians and the principal Orejones listened joyfully to the Inca, and agreed to go into this voluntary exile with him, but it was not without sorrow that they reflected on the happy times they had passed in Cuzco and other parts of the kingdom. Manco Inca took with him a great quantity of treasure, and many loads of fine and beautifully woven cloth. With all this he entered the Andes and arrived at Viticos, where he fixed his quarters in the place where now stands the city of Huanuco ¹ . Here there are broad lands and many Indians, and there was established over them a tyrant of the Inca family named Uilla Tupac, who assembled many of the Orejones and was obeyed 210by them as captain; and he went about illtreating the natives, and ruining the pueblos.