 Jol crossed the Atlantic Ocean nine times to attack the Spanish and Portuguese along the coast of Brazil and in the Caribbean.During one of his earliest voyages, he captured the island of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of Brazil, which remained a part of Dutch Brazil until 1654 under the name of Pavonia.In 1633, he and Diego el Mulato attacked Campeche in the Yucatán Peninsula, then held by Spain, with a fleet of ten ships.