Telegram-herald., 1888-12-21

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Tbe Chlasxs lasu > ~ 1ls ngurinE 81
trlagias tts N<laIls oas ess.ekalkElos IA is4@ .
thiS cts h<Fe o&ase - oaszLr tisslE.seiseN
Nos oa.ly Ray Cal1&so lose ths lSs LAR, hss
ths ~ fs.sr lssalt u.ay not - hel4 A. le--s
- says Ais Mare a trowa.
'.lg = psriscsly es3ard. aid Ms BFQ~n
10 s4lk sbeuI CaluEAbsA dis,,ts sl.e
Alssr1oA los saigAs - ~pn sl,azk Il =
Ns~ 2orker discovering CSs.u-.ss saAFs slssT
the Chle~Eo ars.
'.Ho~ sof
In ths flrsl place tlas Seandinsviens ha6
boe1 IA tnIs country huadfc-ss ~ seArs tefufs
C.alu1nt4ls ~4s born They VenI fron kor
~zy and S~eaca 10 icei2n1 fram there -
Greenlznd, snd then u sAe Maria Ansrlc4a
coatinent 1tss sezaE south slsssos1 - far a.
BoS1on"
Where dsd tlaey 60 thenFa asked defender
of tAs Cvl4msss IDEA
They stAld there and colanize1 the place
Why. ! can prove - xou. az any oae else, II
] am aAoUed - c1ntlaue ms Researches. thai
sfter L.lef Erickson discovered the Americas &
s,onunent II the sssar 100. there were thirty
Roman Catholic bishops appointed BY Rome
AID they built gFeet naug c4tnedrais and
nonasteries. ana the bishops aud monks sent
communications 70 Rome during the ban.
creds 4 years which eiapssd between the
year 100 and the date ~ Chrlstopher Go
lumbas landing
~Ho~ co you proptx TO continue your re
searcheSF"
y am getting up q petition Tor prasanta
ton a. coi.sross, stating the facts y the case
asking fll4t tie index 81 "a docuHacats II
Auaerie7n concern betgeeu tie years i7Co and
l1o5 IL extended a. lar back as the year loo
TEis M give e.iafice % cs. tiisl.ed tas iaci
Of tAe existence of tae coioElss Ia Nlnland
and Gnesnland up - the date q taeu cx
unct3on. ~ tie year l3.1 besl'les t.is. /
propose ID ask congress y au.lo. ~ thor
Ough Investigation. y fhs records al TIE
Vatican ~ alcl fopt i<o xii has thrown
open Ter putlic 4nspoct--2. ] exIect -
prove - taoSs records thai not 0nly va
there E1rope-l travel tetueea Arasrica anG
the old word long before tie csys 81 Colum
bus, BIT tAat tie colouists had arrived al
high degree of csviliz4to.. and were uol sAe
savage barosa4als history Las designated
them"
But how VII his atsec: Columbus a. q
ciscoversrF
simply by proving that not oaly wss
there no originality 10 Lls olscQs cry, bat that
be merely pa.med of a. hls oeB --t As
learned from ot1eF peopie-"
'lrom tkc Ncr1ee .ai4sF7
Certainly. Ia TIE year 1887. according
. tie Life OF Columbus, written by his son
be undoubtedly visited Iceland, GrecalaDd
and moss probably tie American continent
he speaks ct tle trade " 1ich exlstoi ~ those
days between tie creeniandegS and TIE Eng
llsh, and mentions the port q Bristol a. tie
seal Of trade IN tie eastern hemisphere. lie
also refutes the theory which existed Gt that
time thai the sea above q certain latitude
was frozen Five years after that be made
tho journey from Spain which ended IN
South America, but il was not a discovery
He merely proved that the knowledge he
had previously soquired was authentic"
You have evidently given TIE subject
considerable study. Miss Brown
Yes, ] have devoted SIX years 70 looking
up authorities on the question Three years
! have spent in Sweden. and two years IL
London, principally al the British museum,
which, next % the Vatican, Is the greatest
mise on earth for discovering lost records
II congress viii vote an appropriation for
the purpose of sending fne 20 inspect the
Vatican records expect TO prove conclusive
ly before the yesr 1892 That tie Coln 4has
idea Is an exploded myth, aud that Lief
Erickson. the scandinavian. was TIE true
olscoyerer Of America "-CAlcaSo Tribune