Crossword-Solution: PARIA 5 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The ships were cleared for action before daylight, and Nelson entered the Bay of Paria on the 7th, hoping and expecting to make the mouths of the Orinoco as famous in the annals of the British navy as those of the Nile.

LETTER TO THE KING AND QUEEN--DISCOVERY OF TRINIDAD AND PARIA--CURIOUS SPECULATION AS TO THE EARTHLY PARADISE--ARRIVAL AT SAN DOMINGO--REBELLIONS AND MUTINIES IN THAT ISLAND--ROLDAN AND HIS FOLLOWERS--OJEDA AND HIS EXPEDITION--ARRIVAL OF BOBADILLA--COLUMBUS A PRISONER.

They find no inhabitants at first, but eventually meet people who tell him the enemy of this country is Paria.

Young readers, at least, will be specially interested to remember that it was in this region that Robinson Crusoe’s island was placed by Defoe; and if they will carefully read his life they will find discussions there of the flow of the “great River Orinoco.” Crossing this gulf, Columbus had touched upon the coast of Paria, and thus became the first discoverer of South America.

But in truth Ojeda himself says that before he sailed he had seen the map of the Gulf of Paria which Columbus had sent home to the sovereigns after he made that discovery.