 Some Chinese slaves in Spain ended up there after being brought to Lisbon, Portugal, and sold when they were boys.Tristán de la China was a Chinese who was taken as a slave by the Portuguese, while he was still a boy and in the 1520s was obtained by Cristobál de Haro in Lisbon, and taken to live in Seville and Valladolid.He was paid for his service as a translator on the 1525 Loaísa expedition, during which he was still an adolescent.