[1] From young age he pursued a military career and by 1674 he had reached the rank of sergeant major.
[1] The expedition passed by the archipelagoes of Guaitecas, Chonos, it entered San Rafael Lake and crossed the isthmus of Ofqui.
[2] Lacking a studies in cartography and being prone to believe whatever indigenous informants told him his contributions to the geography of Patagonia are in hindsight considered of poor quality.
[4][5] In January 1676 de Vea found out that Cristóbal Talcapillán had fabricated his stories about the presence of Englishmen in the west coast of Patagonia.
[6] Talcapillán was eventually convicted to lifetime penal labour and two hundred lashes for giving a false alarm.