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        1. Luis Vaez de Torres (flourished ), navigator, was a Spanish subject, but nothing is known of his birth or early life.
        2. A young Guam-born sargento mayor, Luís de Torres, made several undeniably noteworthy contributions to the region.
        3. Luís Vaz de Torres was a Spanish explorer.
        4. He was born in Málaga and educated in the grammar school of Juan de Valencia, arrived in Rome around , and with the help of his uncle was.

          5. A young Guam-born sargento mayor, Luís de Torres, made several undeniably noteworthy contributions to the region.!

          Luis de Torres - Jewish Explorer/Interpreter

          Crew member on Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage to the New World.

          Born: Unknown
          Died: Unknown

          Luis de Torres was employed by Christopher Columbus as an interpreter on his first voyage to the New World.

          Prior to this de Torres held a position with Juan Chacon, Governor of Murcia (a province where there was a large numbers of Jews), as a Hebrew interpreter. Because he was Jewish and this was during the era of the Inquisition, it was necessary for him to convert to Catholicism, which he did, the day before the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria set sail on August 2, 1492.

          The voyage also coincided with the expulsion of all Jews from Spain.

          Because he was versed in Hebrew, Aramaic, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Latin and some Arabic, Columbus had thought he would be helpful upon their arrival—especially useful would be his knowledge of Hebrew and Aramaic as Columbus fully expected to encounter Asian desc