>>16420238They continued to sail south and sure enough, they encountered Tumbez, the northernmost Inca coastal city (there were more coastal cities further north like Manta, but Tumbez was a fully Inca one, built from scratch and was at the northern end of the coastal Inca road), the city had a "beautiful fortress" and also had a port and many sailing vessels docked, the Spaniards were wary of entering due to the aforementioned past encounters but before they could decide a small fleet had departed from the port city on their encounter, they were commanded by an Inca officer, who was very inquisitive, but that ultimatelly invited them to visit the city, where they were well received, kind of like celebrities, well the couple of people that actually went did (with the exception of some blacks and natives, there were only 13 Spanish on the ship, nearly everyone left with Panama's governor near Ecuador-Colombian border), they were given a tour throughout the city recording its richness and African slave was made to wash himself believing his skin was painted, the locals told them to be subjected to a king called Guayna Capac who lived deep inland and the kingdom was very large, deciding to explore its shores more they departed south visiting several coastal towns, in all of which were well recieved(in one town ruled by women a Spaniard didn't wanted to go back to the ship, falling in love with a local ruler) and not only that but they noticed people didn't bear weapons (decades ago, Incas banned the use of weapons to northern coastal peoples in fears of a revolt) which would prove to be usefull in the initial stages of the conquest, which began 8 years later after returning back to Spain, now again in the city of Tumbez, Pizarro found it destroyed due to the ravages of the war between the Inca princes Atahualpa and Huascar, local caciques were still often friendly though, so he used the same strategy he had been used for decades, request a metting, then capture him
