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The king's fifth

The king's fifth

Book On CD 2010

There were seven of them when they left the summer camp of Coronado's army and struck out into what is now the great Southwest to find the golden cities of Cibola. Writing in his cell during the days of his trial for withholding the King's Fifth, or royal share of treasure, Esteban de Sandoval, a young mapmaker, recalls all that happened since they left.