chiefs, and soldiers.  The first hostile forces which in Pizarro’s time had endeavored to fight their way into Uilcapampa had never been allowed by Manco to get as far as this.  His youngest son, Tupac Amaru, had had no experience in these matters.  The chiefs and nobles had failed to defend the pass; and they now failed to destroy the Chuquichaca bridge, apparently relying on their ability to take care of one Spanish soldier at a time and prevent the Spaniards from crossing the narrow, swaying structure.  General Hurtado was not taking any such chances.  He had brought with him one or two light mountain field pieces, with which the raw troops of the Inca were little acquainted.  The sides of the valley at this point rise steeply from the river and the reverberations caused by gun fire would be fairly terrifying to those who had never heard anything like it before.  A few volleys from the guns and the arquebuses, and the Indians fled pellmell in every direction, leaving the bridge undefended.

Captain Garcia, who had married the daughter of Sayri Tupac, was sent in pursuit of the Inca.  His men found the road “narrow in the ascent, with forest on the right, and on the left a ravine of great depth.”  It was only a footpath, barely wide enough for two men to pass.  Garcia, with customary Spanish bravery, marched at the head of his company.  Suddenly out of the thick forest an Inca chieftain named Hualpa, endeavoring to protect the flight of Tupac Amaru, sprang on Garcia, held him so that he could not get at his sword and endeavored to hurl him over the cliff.  The captain’s life was saved by a faithful Indian servant who was following immediately behind him, carrying his sword.  Drawing it from the scabbard “with much dexterity and animation,” the Indian killed Hualpa and saved his master’s life.

Garcia fought several battles, took some forts and succeeded in capturing many prisoners.  From them it was learned that the Inca had “gone inland toward the valley of Simaponte; and that he was flying to the country of the Manaries Indians, a warlike tribe and his friends, where balsas and canoes were posted to save him and enable him to escape.”  Nothing daunted by the dangers of the jungle nor the rapids of the river, Garcia finally managed to construct five rafts, on which he put some of his soldiers.  Accompanying them himself, he descended the rapids, escaping death many times by swimming, and finally arrived at a place called Momori, only to find that the Inca, learning of their approach, had gone farther into the woods.  Garcia followed hard after, although he and his men were by this time barefooted and suffering from want of food.  They finally captured the Inca.  Garcilasso says that Tupac Amaru, “considering that he had not People to make resistance, and that he was not conscious to himself of any Crime, or disturbance he had done or raised, suffered himself to be taken; choosing rather to entrust himself in the hands of the Spaniards, than to perish in those Mountains with