• He was a member of the royal Portuguese court of King Manuel I of Portugal and King John II
  
  
• Bartholomeu Dias accompanied him on the voyage
  
  
• Vasco da Gama gave him the directions needed to follow his voyage
  
  
• On April 22, he named a mountain: Mt. Pascoal
  
  
• Pedro Alvares Cabral returned to Lisbon with just four ships of the thirteen that had started the adventure