Luis de Torres

Luis de Torres (died 1493) was Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage to America.
After arriving at Cuba, which he supposed to be the Asian coast, Columbus sent de Torres and the sailor Rodrigo de Jerez on an expedition inland on November 2, 1492. Their task was to explore the country, contact its ruler, and gather information about the Asian emperor described by Marco Polo as the "Great Khan". The two men were received with great honors in a village, and returned four days later. They reported on the native custom of drying leaves, inserting them in cane pipes, burning them, and inhaling the smoke: a reference to the use of tobacco.
When Columbus set off for Spain on January 4, 1493, Luis de Torres was among the 39 men who stayed behind at the settlement of La Navidad founded on the island of Hispaniola. Coming back by the end of that year, Columbus learnt that the whole garrison had been wiped out by internal strife and by an Indian attack, which had occurred in retaliation to the Spaniards' abducting native women. After a fact captured Indigenous inhabitants testified to a returning Columbus expedition in behalf of a translator believed to be de Torres for attempting to prevent the violent acts.
Legends.
De Torres' life has been the subject of various legends. The most widespread one, which can be found in the Encyclopaedia Judaica and similar reference books, is that de Torres was a Jewish converso or convert escaping the banishment of the Jews from Spain and that he became in his latter days a wealthy and honored landowner in the West Indies. This version goes back to Meyer Kayserling's book "Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries" (1894).
The story of de Torres addressing a native tribe in Hebrew after Columbus's first landfall has been proven to be fact as 1200 Hebrew stones have been discovered among a native temple in Puerto Rico confirming the writing of Columbus that the language of the native was “Hebriaco Corrompido” 
Which is also in the book 
to Meyer Kayserling's book "Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries" (1894).
https://www.firekeepersinternational.org/post/800-ancient-stones-with-hebrew-writing-in-puerto-rico-authenticated