"The later Spanish tales were largely caused by reports given by the four shipwrecked survivors of the failed Narváez expedition, <u>which included Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca</u> and a black moorish slave named Esteban Dorantes, or Estevanico. Eventually returning to New Spain, the adventurers said they had heard stories from natives about cities with great and limitless riches. However, when conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado finally arrived at Cíbola in 1540, he discovered that the stories were unfounded and that there were, in fact, no treasures as the friar had described — only adobe towns."
