 While in Cuba, he encountered Dutch pirate Bernard Speirdyke and later captured his ship.Upon his return to Cartagena in 1671, a festival was held in his honor, and he was appointed "Admiral of the Corsairs" by the governor.During that same year, he sailed with his flagship the "San Pedro" and a captured French frigate, seizing another sloop and attacking remote villages on the northern Jamaican coastline.