Three years after his 8 year survival journey from Florida to Mexico City, Azemmouri was chosen by the Viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) in 1539 to serve as the main guide for a return expedition to the Southwest led by Fray Marcos de Niza seeking "the Seven Cities of Cibola". Marcos de Niza reported in his own "Relacíon" that Azemmouri was killed in the Zuni city of Hawikuh in 1539. The Indians who reported Azemmouri's death to Friar Marcos de Niza did not see him killed but only assumed he had been killed. Azemmouri was the first non-Native to visit Pueblo lands.