THE PEARL COAST.
The admiral's course, when he was going northwards, had been in the direction of the Carib islands, already well known to him; but with great delight he now turned towards Trinidad, making for a cape which, from the likeness of a little rocky islet near it to a galley in full sail, he named "La Galera." [17] There he arrived "at the hour of complines," but, not finding the port sufficiently deep for his vessels to enter, he proceeded westwards.
[Footnote 17: This point is sometimes placed at the north-east of
Trinidad; but wrongly so. It is now Cape Galeota.—See Humbolt's Examen
Critique, vol. i. p. 310.]
[Illustration: Map of THE PEARL COAST. From about 50 miles west of the
island of Margarita to just east of Trinidad and Tobago; from about 50
miles north of Grenada to 50 miles south of the Orinoco River.]