 Although it has been claimed that he took many prizes during this period, documentary evidence indicates that he captured just two French frigates and not in the Pacific but in the Atlantic.He reached Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru with them in January 1720, although he had left Spain in 1716 as second-in-command of the "Nuestra Señora del Carmen" or Lanfranco as part of the expedition commanded by Juan Nicolás de Martinet (he separated from the expedition while sailing past Cape Horn).The prizes attributed to Lezo were actually taken by Martinet, who reached Callao in June 1717 and left the Pacific in 1719 before Lezo's arrival.