Attawhalpa speaks.

Atahualpa needs.

Atahualpa commands.

Bring him gold.

From the palaces, from the temples, from all buildings in the great places,

from walls of pleasure and roofs of omen, from floors of feasting and ceilings of death.

Bring him the gold of Quito and Pachamacacacacac.

Bring him the gold of Cusco and Coricacac. Bring him the gold of Kusko and Korikancher.

Bring him the gold of Vilcanota.

Bring him the gold of Colli, of Amarius and Arakepa.

Bring him the gold of the Chimu.

Put up a mountain of gold and free your son from his prison of clouds.

So that was Christopher Plumber playing Atahualpa, Emperor of the Inca's in Peter Schaffer's

play, The Royal Hunter of the Sun, which we've been hearing a lot of in this series.

And Atahualpa, in that scene, is summoning his

people to one of the most memorable endeavors in the whole of world history. And it's the kind of

scene that maybe as a child, you have a book of world history and you read about it and you think,

wow, that's mad. That couldn't possibly have happened. And that is exactly what happened to me. I had a book of world history and you read about it and you think, wow, that's mad. That couldn't possibly have happened. And that is exactly what happened to me. I had a book of world history and there was

Atahelper with Francisco Pizarro in a kind of very cool hat and a beard. They were chatting away and

they're in this room and there's this kind of piles of gold mounting up. And on the room,

there is a white line that's been drawn around it.

And you realize that Atulper has to get enough gold to reach that white line.

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