But it is evident enough that by this time the leaders of the Virginia Company were chiefly fearful that Spain might attack their colony before it was securely fortified, and before it had fulfilled the promise of rewards far greater than anything Freebooting ventures could offer.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven
All this part of Northumberland, indeed, was a constant Freebooting arena, neither Scots nor English being content without some fray on hand.
"In the Border Country"
W. S. (William Shillinglaw) Crockett
Were they not indeed walking of themselves right into the "lion's den"-the lair of this savage and Freebooting chieftain whose very name meant lion in the Zulu language!
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford