This pirate was born in the city of Trucheo in the province of Cuytan, called by the Portuguese Catim.

He was the son of parents in moderate circumstances, who, while he was a child, reared him in the midst of vice and license.

On this account, and by his own nature, he was quarrelsome and evilly disposed.

He would learn no trade, except to commit robberies along the highway, in which he became so proficient, that very soon he had a large following--more than two thousand--of whom he was the acknowledged chief, and came to be feared throughout the whole province where he committed his depredations.
When the king and his council learned of this, the former ordered the viceroy of the province where the pirate was, to assemble all the garrisons of his frontiers, and to try to capture him, and carry or send him alive to the city of Taybin, or if that were impossible, to secure his head.

The viceroy ordered the necessary forces to assemble for this pursuit, with all haste.