So, while probably being a skilled navigator, he was either a serial bullshitter who may or may not have been before the King of Spain and may not have actually

So, while probably being a skilled navigator, he was either a serial bullshitter who may or may not have been before the King of Spain and may not have actually seen features that were later ascribed to the area, or a man wronged probably by the viceroy who may have colluded with others to get him excluded from the archives. Both possibilities are fairly bizarre. Then there's Englishman Charles William Barkley (1759 – 1832) who ran an unlicensed, regulation-dodging trading tour out of one ship registered abroad, in collusion with some top executives at the monopolist competition! He was the one who named the strait after Juan de Fuca, so clearly the English were much more fascinated with him than the Spanish.