Following orders issued by Cueva Bartolomé Gallardo led in 1674 an expedition from Chiloé that reaching as far south as the Gulf of Penas (47° S).

The Antonio de Vea expedition of 1675–1676 dispelled rumours about English bases as it found that Cristóbal Talcapillán had been fabricating stories to please the Spanish.

[8] As sixteen men had disappeared at Evangelistas Islets in February 1676 during the expedition to Patagonia, Cueva ordered the governments of Chile, Chiloé and Buenos Aires to inquire about their fate.

[8] However no information about their fate came forth and it is presumed that the boat they travelled in wrecked in the same storm that forced the remaining party to leave the area.

[8][9] According to Cueva, Talcapillán was condemned to two hundred lashes in addition to a lifetime sentence of penal labour of quarrying stone in San Lorenzo Island for use in the walls of the local presidio.

Rumors of enormous wealth hidden generations earlier by the indigenous in caves and lakes circulated widely.

The governor did allow the Indigenous to proclaim him prince, and he even left with an entourage to greet and congratulate Inca Huallpa.

Other reports claim that Bohorques had earlier duped Viceroy Cueva, making him think that he had discovered the "fabulous country of Enin, and visited its gold palaces and precious treasures."

Ilyas ibn Hanna al-Mawsili (Elias, son of John of Mosul), a Chaldean Christian of Assyrian descent, departed from Cádiz, Spain for Peru on February 13, 1675.

His mission was to raise money for the repair of an Assyrian church in Baghdad and to gather alms for the Chaldean community.