Tom Holland

Yes, who got burnt.

And actually... He's still alive, isn't he?

The Spaniards have brought him with them.

He's very badly singed, if you may recall.

His tendons, I think, have been badly burnt, haven't they?

And they've now chained him up, but they brought him with them.

Now at about this point, the halfway, the Spaniards start to get very jittery.

The scouts are reporting there are northern troops, so that's Atahualpa's former armies, the troops from Quito in the north nearby, and these are led by the northern commander Quisquis, who is the guy who had taken Cuzco for Atahualpa.

Anyway, the Spaniards go on.

The terrain becomes more desolate, it's now very cold.

And some of the Spanish, not surprisingly, have got terrible altitude sickness.

They're tens of thousands of feet high up.

The villages are deserted, there are more rumours of northern troops, and at last they come out in the valley of Xauxa, and there are two more reminders of the civil war.

So first, very ominously, I mean, I know we said this with the Aztecs, but this would be another brilliant Hollywood film or series.

They ride past the bodies of 4,000 people who'd been killed by the Quito army some months earlier, and the bodies have been left there to rot.

And then, as they continue, the locals start to turn out and to greet them as liberators.

I quote, The natives all came out onto the road to look at the Christians and greatly celebrated their arrival, for they thought it would mean their escape from the servitude in which they were held by that foreign army.

A foreign army.

Which is the Incas.

Yeah, is an Inca army from Quito, from Ecuador, from the north.