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.