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Updated: May 24, 2025
Michael's, and his lucky star was still in the ascendant. As if sent on purpose for him, the San Philip, a magnificent caraque from the Indies, fell straight into his hands, 'so richly loaded, it was said, 'that every man in the fleet counted his fortune made. There was no need to wait for more. It was but two months since Drake had sailed from Plymouth.
Marine engineers were sent to mark the finest trunks of Brazil-wood, mahogany, cedrela and laurinea between Angostura and the mouth of the Orinoco, as well as on the banks of the Gulf of Paria, commonly called the Golfo triste. It was not intended to establish docks on that spot, but to hew the weighty timber into the forms necessary for ship-building, and to transport it to Caraque, near Cadiz.
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