Oil-rich South American basin

Usage examples of maracaibo.

They raided Nueva Segovia, took a number of Spanish ships, and sacked Maracaibo and western Gibraltar.

They then rummaged Maracaibo for brimstone, pitch, and tar, with which to make their fireship.

As it grew dark they returned to Maracaibo, leaving one of their ships to watch the fortress and to recover treasure from the sunken flagship.

He told the Maracaibo citizens that they would not be sent ashore until the danger of the passage was removed.

I mean like Maracaibo they just sound so, they all sound so mysterious and.

Nighthawk watched the Pearl of Maracaibo undulating atop her floating platform.

Nighthawk, smiling up at the Pearl of Maracaibo as she finished her dance.

Finally he wandered over to the bar, ordered a Dust Whore, and idly watched the various dancers until the Pearl of Maracaibo appeared on the floating platform.

Nighthawk sat at the bar, next to Lizard Malloy, staring at the Pearl of Maracaibo in rapt fascination.

The Pearl of Maracaibo turned to Nighthawk and shrugged helplessly, almost falling out of her towel.

Similar vessels traded at Maracaibo, in Porto Rico and at San Domingo, at Havana and Matanzas in Cuba and at Truxillo and Campeache.

Kitts and Barbadoes, he cruised along the Main from Caracas to Honduras and plundered the towns of Maracaibo and Truxillo.

With these small numbers he changed his resolution to attempt Cartagena, and set sail for Maracaibo, a town situated on the great lagoon of that name in Venezuela.

At Maracaibo Morgan learnt that three large Spanish men-of-war were lying off the entrance of the lake, and that the fort, in the meantime, had been armed and manned and put into a posture of defence.

Morgan then returned to Maracaibo to refit his prize, and opening negotiations again with Don Alonso, he actually succeeded in obtaining 20,000 pieces of eight and 500 head of cattle as a ransom for the city.