It is a large ship, strong and able to defend itself against any pirates.

It is laden with all sorts of useful and valuable things, and among these are a great many trunks and boxes filled with different kinds of clothes.
Also, there's a great deal of money kept in a box by itself, and is in charge of an agent who is bringing it out to my father, supposing him to be now settled in Barbadoes.

This money is generally a legacy for my father from a distant relative who has recently died.

On this ship there are so many delightful things that I cannot even begin to mention them." "And where is it going to ?" asked Dickory.
"That I don't know exactly.

Sometimes I think that it is going to the island of Barbadoes, where we originally intended to settle; but then I imagine that there is some pleasanter place than Barbadoes, and if that's the case the ship is going there." "There can be no pleasanter place than Barbadoes," cried Dickory.