CORONADO

The news the four survivors brought with them of seven cities to the north tallied with other rumors: Viceroy Mendoza knew of Don Nuño de Guzman's treks north in search of seven rich and populous cities that an Indian named Tejo had told him about.

The prospect was made all the more tantalizing by tradition:

Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains, (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1949), p. 6:

In the Middle Ages so the old tale ran, seven Portuguese bishops, pressed by the conquering Mohammedans, fled west into the ‘Ocean Sea,’ and founded the Seven Cities of Antilia - hence the name Antilles, given by the Spaniards to the West Indian islands. The story was not confined to Portuguese and Spanish circles. John Cabot, after his celebrated voyage to Newfoundland in 1497 in the service of England, was reputed to have discovered ‘the isles of Brazil and the Seven Cities’

Thus the American Dream of material wealth “mas allá” (beyond) was born.

AURA

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