Alonzo de cartagena, son of Solomon ha Levi, or Paul of Burgos, was born in Burgos, Spain, in 1385, and was baptized with his father, brothers and sisters in 1391. After studying philosophy and law, he became deacon of Santiago and Segovia.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
This was nothing less than the descent upon and the capture of Panama, which was, next to cartagena, perhaps, the most powerful and the most strongly fortified city in the West Indies.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle
There, after cruising about in those waters for about a fortnight without falling in with a vessel of any sort, at the end of that time they overhauled a caravel bound from Porto Bello to cartagena, which vessel they took, and finding her loaded with nothing better than raw hides, scuttled and sank her, being then about twenty leagues from the main of cartagena.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle