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The Colorado River 
should proceed by both land and water to the wonderful Seven 
Cities of Cibola, believed to be rich beyond computation. The 
negro Estevan had lately been sent back to the marvellous 
northland he so glowingly described, guiding Marcos, the Fran¬ 
ciscan monk of Savoyard birth, who was to investigate care¬ 
fully, as far as possible, the glories recounted and speedily 
report. They were in the north about the same time (summer 
of 1539) that Ulloa was sailing up the Sea of Cortes. The 
The Ancient Ruin on the Cliff. 
Glen Canyon. 
Photograph by J. Fennemore, U. S, Colo. Riv. Exp. 
negro, who had by arrangement proceeded there some days in 
advance of Marcos, was killed at the first Pueblo village, and 
Marcos, afraid of his life, and before he had seen anything of 
the wonderful cities except a frightened glimpse from a distant 
hill, beat a precipitate retreat to New Galicia, the province just 
north of New Spain, and of which Francis Vasquez de Coro¬ 
nado had recently been made governor. Here he astonished 
Coronado with a description of the vast wealth and beauty of 
the Seven Cities of Cibola; a description that does credit to 
