| Duarte Pacheco Pereira's Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis is the first European navigation script book to mention the coast of Brazil. |
| Pacheco is professor emerita of history at George Mason University, author of The Legacy of George Mason and co-author of Three Who Dared. |
| Duarte Pacheco located and cornered Mondragon off Cape Finisterre in 1509, and defeated and captured him. |
| Others suspect Duarte Pacheco Pereira secretly discovered Brazil in 1498, but this not considered credible by mainstream historians. |
| Francisco Pacheco, the Sevillian painter and theorist who trained Velazquez, refers to it several times in his treatise. |
| One chronicler suggests that the knight Duarte Pacheco Pereira was also aboard. |
