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That Don Diego was not playing fair it was impossible to suspect.
Moreover, there was no conceivable reason why he should not. And
he had been of the utmost frankness with them. He had denounced
their mistake in sailing before the wind upon leaving Barbados.
They should have left the island to leeward, heading into the
Caribbean and away from the archipelago. As it was, they would now
be forced to pass through this archipelago again so as to make
Curacao, and this passage was not to be accomplished without some
measure of risk to themselves. At any point between the islands
they might come upon an equal or superior craft; whether she were
Spanish or English would be equally bad for them, and being
undermanned they were in no case to fight. To lessen this risk
as far as possible, Don Diego directed at first a southerly and
then a westerly course; and so, taking a line midway between
the islands of Tobago and Grenada, they won safely through the
danger-zone and came into the comparative security of the Caribbean
Sea.


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