CORONADO

Only four. That’s right. One was Cabeza de Vaca who had embarked with Narvaez as the king’s treasurer for the expedition. He listed the four survivors as follows:

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, “La Relación… ,” trans. Fanny Bandelier, The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536,” (New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905), pp. 192-3:

The first is [Captain] Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, a native of Salamanca and son of Doctor Castillo and Doña Aldonza Mal­donado. The second is Andrés Dorantes, son of Pablo Dorantes, born at Béjar, but a resident of Gibraléon. The third is Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, son of Francisco de Vera and grandson of Pedro de Vera, who conquered the Canarian Islands. His mo­ther was called Doña Teresa Cabeza de Vaca, and she was a native of Xerez de la Frontera. The fourth was Estévanico, an Arab negro from Azamor, [Bejar, Morocco], slave owned by Dorantes.

Cabeza de Vaca was born at Jerez de Vera and had embarked with Narvaez as the king’s treasurer for the expedition.