The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-12-01
THE TRAVELS OF COLUMBUS AFTER HIS
DEATH.

slightly altered.
THE TRAVELS OF COLUMBUS AFTER HIS
DEATH.
It would seem that the body OF this
illustrious traveller is destined to 40 much
vicissitudes as its owner had. We have
lately stated that Columbus remains ars
about to be removed to q splendid new
cemetry at Havana. The New Orleans
Picayune gives the following interesting
account of the body's travels:
Columbus died Ascencion day, the Goth
of May, 1905, in about the sesentieth year
of his age. His obsequics were celebrated
with great pomp at Valladolid, and his body
deposited in the convent Of San Francisco.
Thence, nine years after, in the year 1914,
it was removed to the Carthusian monastery
Of Seville, where likewise was deposited
the body of his son Diego. Twenty. three
years after, in the year 1886, the bodies Of
both the Admiral and his son were removed,
with appropriate pomp and ceremonies, to
the New World he had discovered, and
inferred in the principal city of San Domin-
90, Hispaniola. There they remained un-
disturbed for period of 259 years.
In the year 1875, however, at the close Of
the war between France and Spain, all the
Spanish possessions in the Island Of Ills
PAMELA were ceded to France, whereupon q
request was preferred to the French Gov
ernor to have the remains of Columbus
removed to Cuba. The request was granted,
and on the Goth Of December, l795, the
vault in the Cathedral Of San Domingo
was for the fret time in nearly three hun
dred years opened. "Within," says the
record of the event, "were found the frag-
ments of leaden coffin, n number of bones
and quantity of mold, evidently the
remains of human body" These were care.
fully collected and put into case Of gilded
lead, about half an ell in length and breadth,
and third in height, secured by an iron
lock, the key Of which was delivered to the
Archbishop. The case was inc!osed in a
coffin, covered with black velvet, and orna.
mented with lace and fringe of gold.
After appropriate funeral ceremonies tha
BODY was taken on board the shiE
! Lorenzo and taken to Havana, where il
arrived on the 18th Of January, 1876. Il
was received in the most solemn manner
with all the honors given to o sovereign
/ met BY the Governor Of the leland, accom-
pdUleu Dy HIS kcueEuI uuu uIHsuIy ct"n
The coffin was then conveyed between ilea
of soldiery, which lined the streets, to thu
obelisk, in the Place d'Armes, where it wal
received in hearse prepared for the pur.
! pose. Here the remains were formally de-
iivered to the Governor and Captain Gene
raj of the Island, the key given up to him
the coffin opened and examined, and ths
safe transportation Of its contents authsnti
Gated.
The ceremony concluded, the solemn rite
for the dead we're performed by the Arch
bishop, and the remains Of the great dis
coyerer we're again deposited in the wall
on the right side of the grand altar OF tb
! Cathedral of Havana, where they have eve
since remained, the object OF reverence +
| ALI visitors Of the Island.
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| called out -
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