Tom Holland
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And he's withdrawn.
He's basically withdrawn with all them into the forests.
Some poor behavior by Rumunyawi.
Rumunyawi and his men said to the virgins of the Sun Temple, there were 300 of them, you should leave with us because the Spanish will arrive and they will rape you if you don't.
And the virgins said, no, we don't want to.
So Rumunyawi's men killed them all.
Do you know, if Rumunyawi told me to do something, I would do it.
I'm not going to mess around.
I'm going to go, yes, fine, whatever.
Please don't turn me into a drum.
So then the Spanish disgraced themselves massively.
They couldn't find the treasure.
They sort of raid around the local countryside looking for the treasure.
They can't find it.
They start slaughtering all the women and children, demanding, you know, where is the gold?
Even the official royal chronicler of the expedition said this was cruelty unworthy of a Castilian.
God, that is stern words.
Those are some words.
And actually, if you're Ecuadorian, you think things are bleak, but now things are going to get a lot worse because both Diego de Almagro and Pedro de Alvarado are fast advancing on the Ecuadorian heartland.
So Almagro arrived first, and actually he behaved himself by his own standards quite well.