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In 1534 they escaped into the American interior, where they became faith healers. As medicine men they were treated with great respect and offered food, shelter, and gifts. When they arrived at a new village a party was thrown and when they decided they wanted to leave, the village would guide them to the next village. Sometimes there were as many as 3,000 people following them. The party traversed the continent as far as western Mexico, into the Sonoran Desert to the region of Sonora in New Spain (present-day Mexico), where they were found by a slave-hunting group of Spaniards.