naui, as a fugitive in the mountains, describes his defeat and the

complete success of the strategy of Ollantay and Urco Huaranca.  His

soliloquy is in the octosyllabic quatrains.  The last scene of the

second act is in the gardens of the Convent of Virgins of the Sun.  A

young girl is standing by a gate which opens on the street.  This, as

afterwards appears, is Yma Sumac, the daughter of Ollantay and Cusi

Coyllur, aged ten, but ignorant of her parentage.  To her enters Pitu

Salla, an attendant, who chides her for being so fond of looking out at

the gate.  The conversation which follows shows that Yma Sumac detests

the convent and refuses to take the vows.  She also has heard the moans

of some sufferer, and importunes Pitu Salla to tell her who it is.  Yma

Sumac goes as Mama Ccacca enters and cross examines Pitu Salla on her

progress in persuading Yma Sumac to adopt convent life.  This Mama

Ccacca is one of the Matrons or Mama Cuna, and she is also the jailer of

Cusi Coyllur.

 

The third act opens with an amusing scene between the Uillac Uma and

Piqui Chaqui, who meet in a street in Cuzco.  Piqui Chaqui wants to get

news, but to tell nothing, and in this he succeeds.  The death of Inca

Pachacuti is announced to him, and the accession of Tupac Yupanqui, and

with this news he departs.

 

Next there is an interview between the new Inca Tupac Yupanqui, the

Uillac Uma, and the defeated general Rumi-naui, who promises to retrieve

the former disaster and bring the rebels to Cuzco, dead or alive.  It

after wards appears that the scheme of Rumi-naui was one of treachery.

He intended to conceal his troops in eaves and gorges near Ollantay-

tampu ready to rush in, when a signal was made.  Rumi-naui then cut and

slashed his face, covered himself with mud, and appeared at the gates of

Ollantay-tampu, declaring that he had received this treatment from the

new Inca, and imploring protection.[FN#5]  Ollantay received him with

the greatest kindness and hospitality.  In a few days Ollantay and his

people celebrated the Raymi or great festival of the sun with much

rejoicing and drinking.  Rumi-naui pretended to join in the festivities,

but when most of them were wrapped in drunken sleep, he opened the

gates, let in his own men, and made them all prisoners.

 

 

[FN#5]  A bust, on an earthen vase, was presented to Don Antonio Maria

Alvarez, the political chief of Cuzco, in 1837, by an Indian who

declared that it had been handed down in his family from time

immemorial, as a likeness of the general, Rumi-naui, who plays an

important part in this drama of Ollantay.  The person represented must

have been a general, from the ornament on the forehead, called

mascapaycha, and there are wounds cut on the face.--Museo Erudito, No.

B.

 

 

There is next another scene in the garden of the convent, in which Yma

Sumac importunes Pitu Salla to tell her the secret of the prisoner.

Pitu Salla at last yields and opens a stone door.  Cusi Coyllur is

discovered, fastened to a wall, and in a dying state.  She had been

imprisoned, by order of her father, Inca Pachacuti on the birth of Yma

Sumac.  She is restored with food and water, and the relationship is