Excerpt from Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 82: April June, 1982 Bridgetown, founded by the British in 1628, is the capital, commercial center, and major port of Barbados. The port serves also as an important transshipment point for the Caribbean Basin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.