All this, of course, is very much more clear to our present knowledge than it could possibly be to the Spanish Admiral, who probably, and not unnaturally, thought it far better to get his "fleet in being" under the guns of a friendly port than to hazard it on what might prove a wild-goose chase; for, after all, Captain Clark might not have gone to barbados.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan
Captain Campion had considered only one special enough to mention, because it had been blessed by the Cardinal of France and entrusted to his care for delivery to the Governor of barbados.
"The Wailing Octopus"
Harold Leland Goodwin
Having sold himself, after the manner of the times, for his passage across the seas, he worked out his time of servitude at the barbados.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle