It was the life of an intelligent young seaman, going wherever there was a voyage for him.

He says himself, "I passed twenty-three years on the sea.

I have seen all the Levant, all the western coasts, and the North.

I have seen England; I have often made the voyage from Lisbon to the Guinea coast." This he wrote in a letter to Ferdinand and Isabella.

Again he says, "I went to sea from the most tender age and have continued in a sea life to this day.