Stark's Guide-Book and History of Trinidad

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Since Columbus' day, many sea-faring heroes have entered the Gulf of Paria, but none of them half so grand and famous as the one - armed, one eyed sailor - man who passed through Boca de Navios, on June 7, 1805, in the frigate Victory, one of a fleet of thirteen sail that had chased twenty eight French and Spanish war-ships from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Caribbean Sea.