History of the Incas | Page 6

large volume. He was a prolific legislator and a great
statesman.
His worst mistake was the policy he adopted with regard to the family
of the Incas. He desired to establish the position of the King of Spain
without a rival. He, therefore, sought to malign the preceding dynasty,
persecuted the descendants of the Incas, and committed one act of cruel
injustice.
When Atahualpa put his half-brother Huascar, the last reigning Inca, to
death, there remained three surviving sons of their father the great Inca
Huayna Ccapac, named Manco, Paullu, and Titu Atauchi, and several

daughters. After his occupation of Cuzco, Pizarro acknowledged
Manco Inca as the legitimate successor of his brother Huascar, and he
was publicly crowned, receiving all the insignia on March 24th, 1534.
He escaped from the Spaniards and besieged them in Cuzco at the head
of a large army. Forced to raise the siege he established his
head-quarters at Ollantay-tampu, where he repulsed an attack led by
Hernando Pizarro. He was, however, defeated by Orgoñiez, the
lieutenant of Almagro, and took refuge in the mountainous province of
Vilcapampa on the left bank of the Vilcamayu. From thence he made
constant attacks on the Spaniards, maintaining his independence in this
small remnant of his dominions. Some of the partisans of Almagro took
refuge with him, and he was accidentally killed by one of them in 1544,
after a not inglorious reign of ten years.
He left two legitimate sons, named Sayri Tupac and Tupac Amaru, by
his wife and niece the Princess Ataria Cusi Huarcay, daughter of his
ill-fated brother Huascar. This marriage was legalized by a bull of Pope
Paul III in the time of the Viceroy Marquis of Cañete, 1555--1561. He
had also an illegitimate son named Cusi Titu Yupanqui, and a daughter
named Maria Tupac Usca, married to Don Pedro Ortiz de Orue, one of
the first conquerors[9].
[Note 9: Diego Ortiz de Orue was born in the village of Getafe, near
Madrid. He went out to Peru in 1559, and at once began to study the
Quichua language. He was encomendero of Maras, a village
overlooking the valley of Yucay. By the Inca princess he had a
daughter named Catalina married to Don Luis Justiniani of Seville,
descended from the Genoese family. Their son Luis was the
grandfather of Dr Justo Pastor Justiniani who married Manuela Cataño,
descended from Tupac Inca Yupanqui. Their son Don Pablo Justiniani
was Cura of Laris until his death in 1858, and was a great depository of
Inca lore. He had a very early copy of the Inca drama of Ollanta.]
Sayri Tupac succeeded as fourteenth Inca of Peru. On the arrival of the
Marquis of Cañete as Viceroy in 1555, he caused overtures to be made
to Sayri Tupac through his aunts, who were living at Cuzco with their
Spanish husbands, Juan Sierra de Leguisano and Diego Hernandez. It

was finally arranged that the Inca should receive 17000 castellanos of
rent and the valley of Yucay. On October 7th, 1557, Sayri Tupac left
Vilcapampa with 300 followers, reaching Andahuaylas on November
5th. He entered Lima on January 6th, 1558, was cordially greeted by
the Viceroy and received investiture, assuming the names of Manco
Ccapac Pachacuti Yupanqui. He went to live in the lovely vale of
Yucay. He had been baptized with the name of Diego, but he did not
long survive, dying at Yucay in 1560. His daughter Clara Beatriz
married Don Martin Garcia Loyola. Their daughter Lorenza was
created Marchioness of Oropesa and Yucay, with remainder to
descendants of her great uncle Tupac Amaru. She was the wife of Juan
Henriquez de Borja, grandson of the Duke of Gandia.
On the death of Sayri Tupac, his illegitimate brother, Cusi Titu
Yupanqui assumed sovereignty, owing to the youth of the legitimate
brother Tupac Amaru, both remaining in Vilcapampa.
Paullu Tupac Yupanqui, the next brother of Manco Inca, was baptized
with the name of Cristóval. He accompanied Almagro in his expedition
to Chile, and was with young Almagro at the battle of Chupas.
Eventually he was allowed to fix his residence on the Colcampata of
Cuzco, at the foot of the fortress, and by the side of the church of San
Cristóval. From the terrace of the Colcampata there is a glorious view
with the snowy peak of Vilcañota in the far distance. Paullu died in
May, 1549, and was succeeded on the Colcampata by his son Carlos
Inca. He had two other sons named Felipe and Bartolomé. From the
latter was descended the late Archdeacon of Cuzco, Dr Justo
Salmaraura Inca.
Titu Atauchi, the youngest son of Huayna Ccapac, had a son Alonso.
The princesses, daughters of Huayna Ccapac and sisters of Manco and
Paullu, were Beatriz Ñusta, married first to Martin de Mustincia, and
secondly to Diego Hernandez