Dominic Sandbrook
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So, one local chief says to Pizarro,
Men are coming under a great commander called Ruminyawi, 200,000 people from Quito, and 30,000 Caribs who eat human flesh.
Yeah.
And the Spanish, of course, take this seriously.
Why wouldn't they?
It's kind of mad that the Atahualpas armies haven't attacked them.
And surely they think only a matter of time before Atahualpa's armies decide they're going to try and rescue him.
That's exactly right.
I mean, that's ultimately the decision.
They can't make up their minds.
And Pizarro, I think, in particular, is very conflicted.
They want to go to Crisco to get more gold.
So what do they do with Atahualpa?
They could leave him behind.
That's so risky.
He'll just turn on them, surely.
They can see he's a hard man.
Or number two, they could take him with them across the mountains.
But that's risky too.
Here we're focused for, you know, resistance.