Pizarro, the 13 men of Gallo Island and the fate of Peru.
As a symbolic gesture Francisco Pizarro unsheathed his sword and with its tip carved a line into sand. He was not a loquacious man, few Extremeños were, but when the situation called for it he could become deeply persuasive. For an uncommunicative and undemonstrative man like Don Francisco to resort to such drama showed that this had just become very personal.
Francisco Pizarro was illiterate, illegitimate and ill bred. He was also clever, violent and resourceful. He came from a arrabal or slum in Trujilla which is in Extramdura in Western Spain. A breeding ground for Conquistadors due to the impoverished living conditions of the poor arrabalero's, and indeed the gentry, to whom his philandering father belonged. It was a landlocked and impoverished part of Spain, covered in rocky scrubland, walled towns and seas of parched grass. Scraping a living form the soil was a hard and unrewarding existence. Extrameños were much like the land they came from. Hard, uncommunicative and cruel.
It had taken half a century of toil and pain to put his past behind him. The last thing he had turned his back on was Spain, when he had left it as a young man, and he wasn't about to restart the habit. Pizarro had left Spain as a young man, all his life many people had turned their back's on him but that had been their folly. With no prospects he travelled to the Indies to seek his fortune at the point of a sword. Now fully grown he knew himself and he knew the world, he also knew how far he would go to get what he wanted from it.
By now in 1527 he was a fairly well to do gentleman in Panama, though still almost proudly illiterate, he was one of those dangerous men that thought the sword was mightier than the pen. His comfortable position in society was due to the fact he was a practiced Indian fighter and explorer, he had helped find the Pacific, and he had gone to great lengths to find mysterious civilisation that supposedly flourished along the coast of Peru…"
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