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pointe of the maine land, and this Isle, named it for its 
dangerousness, Bocca del Drago.* 
This Island is in figure something Triangular and 
devided into three parts, by 3 distin nacions of Indians, 
vizt, The Carrebees, the Sapoyes, and Arowayoes, and 
those divisions are distin€tly sepperated, into three parts, 
* On Thursday the 31st of July 1498, Alonzo Perez, a mariner of 
Huelva, went aloft, upon the maintopsail of the Admiral’s ship, and 
suddenly saw land towards the South-west, about fifteen leagues off. 
The land seen was in the form of three lofty hills. This was in the way 
of a coincidence, for Columbus, who was navigating in the name of the 
sacred Trinity, had already resolved to give the name Trinidad to the 
first land he should discover. The sailors sang the Salve Regina, and 
other pious hymns, in honour of God and “ Our Lady.” Columbus now 
shaped his course for 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, but which is now called Cape Galeota. He arrived at Cape 
Galeota “at the hour of complines.” Not finding the port sufficiently 
deep for his vessels, he sailed on Westwards. On the 1st of August he 
continued on his Westerly course, and came to deep soundings, 
somewhere near Point Alcatraz, where he brought to, and took in 
fresh water, of which he was in sore need. On the 2nd of August, he 
sailed on to the Westward, along the Southern part of Trinidad, to the 
Westward point, which he called La Punta de Arenal. Hence he beheld 
the Gulf of Paria, which he called La Balena, (the whale). Entering 
the Gulf by the Serpent's Mouth, just after the rainy season, his vessel 
was carried, on the confli€ting waters, so as to alarm even the stout- 
hearted Admiral. ‘‘ Even to-day I shudder lest the waters should have 
upset the vessel, when they came under its bows,” wrote Columbus to 
Queen Isabella. As he moved up the Gulf, the Admiral called the 
mainland to his left the island of Gracia. The name of Paria, he found 
already in use, when he reached that place. Agwuja, or Needle Point, 
was so named by Columbus, The Admiral sailed out of the Gulf by 
the Dragon’s Mouth. Zhe Spanish Conquest in America: by Sit 
Arthur Helps, Vol. II, pf 100 ¢0 106. 
