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“... between Trinidad and Colon , but
passengers desirous of going ashore at any of them
as well as at Colon are advised to make enquiries as to
health conditions, since the Panama Canal authorities
occasionally subject arrivals from Venezuelan and
Colombian ports to rigid quarantine.
HISTORY. The Spanish Main was discovered by Columbus,
who crossed over to what is now Venezuela, after setting foot
on Trinidad for the first time, in 1498. Alonso de Ojeda coasted
along it in the following year and, having obtained a grant of
the district from Cape Vela to the Gulf of Darien in 1508, founded
the colony of Nueva Andalucia there. Some years later Diego
de Nicuesa established the settlement of Castilla del Oro farther...”
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