It came to be said that he had wiped out villages and sown terror in Casanare as troop commander, that he had escaped from Devil's Island, that he'd been seen in Pernambuco trying to make a living with a pair of trained bears, and that he'd salvaged the remains of a Spanish galleon loaded with gold in the Windward Passage.
Tropako komandantea zelarik herriak erraustu eta Casanare-n izu-ikara eta terrorea sakatu zituela eta guzti esan zen, Cayena-tik profugo alde egina zela, hartz bi hezitakorekin medratu nahiz Pernambuco-n ikusirik zutela, eta Vientos izeneko kanalean urrez kargaturiko galeoi espainol baten hondakinak erreskatatu zituela.