The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . CONVENT OP RABIDA. constructing this edifice, and of collecting in it the relics of Colum-bus, was the thought of William Eleroy Curtis, of the Bureau ofAmerican Republics, who traversed the whole of Europe searchingfor traces of the great Genoese Admiral, and procuring relics, maps,etc., for exhibition here. He is probably the best authority on thiscontinent concerning everything connected with Columbus. has written entertainingly of the Convent and its site. Hetells us that it is located a few miles north of Cadiz, on the Atlant
The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 . CONVENT OP RABIDA. constructing this edifice, and of collecting in it the relics of Colum-bus, was the thought of William Eleroy Curtis, of the Bureau ofAmerican Republics, who traversed the whole of Europe searchingfor traces of the great Genoese Admiral, and procuring relics, maps,etc., for exhibition here. He is probably the best authority on thiscontinent concerning everything connected with Columbus. has written entertainingly of the Convent and its site. Hetells us that it is located a few miles north of Cadiz, on the Atlanticcoast of Spain, about half way between the Straits of Gibraltar andthe boundary of Portugal, on the summit of a low headland between 474 LA RABIDA I<OWER ClyOISTER OF I,A RABIDA. the Tinto and Odiel rivers. These meet at its base, three miles from the sea. Tradition says that the convent was built in the reign of the emperor Trajan in the secondcentury, while history records that it wasreconstructed and used for a fortressduring the Moorish occupation of Spainin the eleventh century. It passed intothe possession of the Franciscan monkswhen the Mohammedans were drivenfrom Andalusia. The little village ofPalos de Mocruer is three miles above theconvent on the Tinto. A bar across themouth of the river forbids the approachof vessels, and the place has declined froma flourishing commercial city to a lonelyhamlet, forsaken by every one exceptfarmers and fishermen. At this port, where the water is so low that sea grasses and rushes are growing where fleets used to float, was organ-ized and equipped the expedition that discovered the new world. The ruins of the house of the Pinzons, who furnished one of the vessels and commanded two,
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