 Good salt pans could be found both on the coast of Venezuela and on Bonaire.Also, on Curaçao itself was blackwood, a raw material for natural paint, cattle, lime and fuel.The fleet WIC under Admiral Johann van Walbeeck invaded the island in 1634 and the Spaniards on the island surrendered in San Juan in August.The approximately thirty Spaniards and a large part of the Taíno were deported to Santa Ana de Coro in Venezuela.