...sessed nothing which could gratify avarice; the promised turkoises were valueless blue stones. Unwilling to give up the hope of discovering an opulent country, on the twenty-third of April, 1541, Coronado , with the false Indian as the pilot of his detachment, began a march to the north-east. Crossing the track of Cabeza de Vaca, in the valley of the Canadian river, they came in nine days upon plains...