Pedro Cubero

Pedro Cubero Sebastián (El Frasno, Spain, 1645 – 1700)^[1] was a Spanish priest, best known for his eastwards travel around the world from 1670 to 1679. He was one of the most widely traveled men in his time.

Pedro Cubero was born in the village of El Frasno, near to

Propaganda Fide

congregation.

Around the world

In accordance with his

Gemelli Careri

undertook a similar voyage twenty years later.

In Europe Cubero visited

Moluccas. In the Americas he visited Acapulco, Veracruz, Havana before returning to Cádiz

.

Vicissitudes in Far East

While sailing from Colombo to Mylapore Cubero was captured by

Catholicism

.

Once in the

Religious Orders that monopolized the missionary work. While in Manila he suffered the big earthquake of November 29, 1677. He went for a while to Tidore, despite the recent withdrawal of the Spanish forces there, and it is not clear if he actually entered China although anyway he dedicated three very detailed chapters of his Peregrinación del Mundo to China, Tartary

and the Chinese-Tartarian wars.

Aboard the Manila galleon

As he felt somehow passed over in the Philippines, he eventually decided to proceed to New Spain. He crossed the Pacific Ocean in the 1678 sailing of the Manila galleon, that time a carrack named San Antonio de Padua commanded by Don Felipe Montemayor y Prado. The navigation started in Cavite on 24 June, they caught sight of the American land on 5 December in latitude North of 29 degrees and docked in Acapulco on 8 January 1679. Only 192 people were alive, several of them dying, out of more than 400 that had begun the voyage.