. The storied West Indies . Leaden casket found in 1877. was the following: Iltre y Escdo Varon, Colon -— Noble and illustrious man,Don Christopher A critical examina-tion of the contents of the casket revealed humanbones, some of them well preserved, though the skullwas missing; a silver plate with the titles of Colum-bus ; and a large bullet, which is supposed to have beenreceived by him in Africa, the wound from whichcaused him much, pain throughout his life. There is the evidence, in a nutshell/ and per-haps the reader may be as well qualified as the writer 132 THE
. The storied West Indies . Leaden casket found in 1877. was the following: Iltre y Escdo Varon, Colon -— Noble and illustrious man,Don Christopher A critical examina-tion of the contents of the casket revealed humanbones, some of them well preserved, though the skullwas missing; a silver plate with the titles of Colum-bus ; and a large bullet, which is supposed to have beenreceived by him in Africa, the wound from whichcaused him much, pain throughout his life. There is the evidence, in a nutshell/ and per-haps the reader may be as well qualified as the writer 132 THE STORIED WEST INDIES to judge of the authenticity of the newly discov-ered remains; though I myself made a most exhaust-ive examination, when I was in Santo Domingo, in1892, and came to the conclusion that the real ashesof Columbus were still in that island. As I wrote atthat time: The error of the Spaniards, in 1795, layin their ignorance of the fact that there were twovaults closely contiguous, and that only a few inches
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