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Excerpt from The Pearl Fishery of Venezuela The exact number of Indian or Negro divers employed by Spaniards is not know. It is reasonable to expect, however, that it was quite large, probably not less than several hundred. In 1621, when only 130 Negro divers were left on Margarita, it was recommended that 300 slaves be imported to revive the pearl fishery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.