Travels in Peru and India by Sir Clements R. Markham
1815. (1 tom. 4°, 112 paginas).
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[268] Information from Gen. San Roman, whose father, a native of Puno,
joined Pumacagua at Cavanilla.
[269] Colonel Alcon.
[270] Gen. San Roman.
[271] _Documento_, i. _Oficio de Vicente Angulo a Ramirez._ Feb. 28,
1815.
[272] _Documento_ ii. _Oficio de Pumacagua a Ramirez._ Marzo 6, 1815.
[273] _Documento_ iii. _Contestacion de Ramirez a Pumacagua._ Marzo 7,
1815.
[274] Information from Gen. San Roman.
[275] Gen. San Roman, who gave me the account of this battle, was
himself present at it, with his father, when a very little boy. His
father was afterwards shot in the plaza of Puno, by the Spaniards, and
when the liberating army arrived on the coast of Peru, in 1822, the
young San Roman hurried down from his mountain home to join their ranks.
[276] In October, 1823, Gen. Miller saw the fair object of the
poet Melgar's adoration, at Camana, on the coast of Peru. She was
a native of Arequipa, with light hair, blue eyes, and a fair clear
complexion. She refused Melgar, married another, and, being obliged
to flee with her husband to escape the persecution of the Royalists,
found an asylum on the banks of the river Camana. Her maiden name was
Paredes.--Miller's _Memoirs_, ii. p. 90.
Melgar's brother is now Minister of Foreign Affairs at Lima.
[277] Information from Don Luis Quiñones of Azangaro.
[278] So strong is the feeling of the Peruvian people generally against
this oppressive system, that, in the reformed constitution promulgated
on Nov. 25, 1860, forced recruiting was declared to be a crime.
"El reclutamiento es un crimen."--_Titulo_ xvi., _art._ 123.
[279] In 1859 there was a very formidable rising of the Indians in
Chayanta, which was not put down until after much bloodshed.
[280] Humboldt.
[281] Hatun-colla was once the capital of the great Inca province of
the Collao.
[282] The three latter are also mentioned by Haenke.
[283] _Antiquedades Peruanas._
[284] One of the manufacturers, Don Manuel Zenon Ramos, has been very
active in seeking for instruction, designs, and models from Europe.
[285] _Lupinus Paniculatus._--Chloris Andina, ii. p. 252.
[286] Landa sent in a report of his expedition to the Corregidor of
Cuzco. My friend Dr. Don Julian Ochoa, the rector of the university of
Cuzco, has recently searched the archives of the ancient municipality
of that city, as well as private collections, for this interesting
document, at my request, but without success.
[287] See _Cuzco and Lima_, chap. viii.; also _Roy. Geo. Soc. Journal_
for 1855.
[288] This is not the great river which flows near Cuzco, and falls
into the Ucayali. The Indians call all rivers which serve as the trunk
or centre of a system of streams _Huilca_ or _Vilca-mayu_.
[289] Brother of the present rector of the university of Cuzco.
[290] Account of the Valleys of Marcapata, by Don José Maria Pacheco.
_Museo Erudito del Cuzco_, 1839, No. 21. See also an account of a
journey down the course of the river Marcapata as far as its junction
with the Ollachea, signed Paul Marcoy, in the _Revue Contemporaine_,
tom. 4^{me}, 1860. _Scènes et Paysages dans les Andes._
[291] _Comm. Real_, ii. lib. iii. cap. xix. p. 174.
[292] Lib. iv. cap. iv.
[293] Don Pablo Pimentel says that the ancient name of the province was
_Inahuaya_.
[294] _Bosquejo del estado actual de la provincia de Carabaya, y
majorias que proponen al Supremo Gobierno el Suprefecto de ella, Don
Pablo Pimentel._ Arequipa, 1846.
[295] _Memorias de los Vireyeo_, i. p. 36.
[296] _Memorial de cosas tocantes las minas de Caravaya._ J. 58, p.
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