BARBADOS-ANTIGUA EXPEDITION 143 
He said that the gases formed in the bodies and confined in the 
air-tight coffins had caused them to float about inside the tomb! 
That man had a scientific turn of mind. 
Over on the eastern side of Barbados, about two miles from 
the Crane Hotel is ‘‘Lord’s Castle,’’ a place with an interesting 
history. The following story struck me as one which would 
furnish an excellent plot for a short drama. It appears that 
the house was built by a man named Lord, which seems some- 
what of a misfit. He was originally an ordinary fisherman liy- 
ing on the coast near Cobblers’ Reef, a place ill-omened and 
exceedingly dangerous to vessels passing along the windward 
side of the island. The income of a Barbadian fisherman is far 
from princely but Sam Lord became wealthy, and it was re- 
ported that he had gone into one of the get-rich-quick schemes 
of that day and was quite successful as a wrecker, and that 
many an unfortunate vessel had been lured to the treacherous 
coast by lights shown by Sam Lord or his men. 
However that may be, he became enormously rich for those 
times, built the stately mansion known as Lord’s Castle, and 
married an English woman of excellent family. This unhappy 
woman soon found that she had married a monster of cruelty. 
Finding it necessary to go to England, Lord decided that it 
would be wise to lock his lady behind bars during his absenee. 
This he did and sailed away. 
His wife, however, prevailed upon some of the servants to re- 
lease her, obtained passage for England on another vessel, which 
outsailed that of her lord and master, reaching England before 
that gentleman, whereupon she hied herself to her father’s house 
and told him all. A short time after, Sam Lord made his ap- 
pearance, was received by the lady’s father as if nothing had 
happened, and proceeded to tell of the princely state in which 
he lived on his island home where his wife lived the life of an 
Empress whose slightest word was law to a vast retinue of ser- 
vants, and most of all to Lord himself. 
Then, presto, the wife appears and confronts him before her 
justly infuriated father and brothers. Curtain! 
The city of Bridgetown is of course the political and social 
center of the Colony. The population is perhaps 25,000, and the 
crowded streets give an impression of a much large town. The 
