The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-15

Throne of Judgment from the charge of having cognizance of the departure
 and whereabouts of Madoc, and the inference to be deduced from these lines Is that the bard of that period was expected by means of some occult power to gratify the public curiosity as to what had become of the defunct prince.
 To this may be added the even stronger testimony of the two other Welsh bards, Syr Meredyth ap Rhys, who wrote in 1477, and whose poem Is quoted by Hakluyt 14771. and also Of Gutyn Owain, who wrote in 14S0, some fourteen or fifteen years before the time of Columbus authorization. The last-named was one of the members of the Commission appointed by Henry VIII to investigate the pedigree of Owen Tudor. It will be quite obvious that the references of these writers, which are explicit as to Madocs first and second voyages, could never have been conceived in order to dispute the claims of Columbus as the first dis coverer" of America, the first having written over 300 years, and the two latter from fifteen to twenty years before the Spaniard embarked.
 Lord Lytteltonl in his history of the reign of Henry II, states that Madoc was a bolder navigator than any of his
 
 for having made certain distant voy- ages. But there are other witnesses. amongst whom may be mentioned Hornlus, whose work was published at the Hague in 1662, and in which he says :-"Madoc, a prince of Cambria, with some of his nation, discovered some land in the far west. and that his name and memory are still retained amongst the inhabitants of that coun- try scarcely any doubt remains" The
 same writer makes reference to the testimony of Peter Martyr, who was a distinguished member of the Court of Ferdinand V at the time of Colum- bus's return, and he (Martyr) is credit
 ed with the declaration, on the au- thority of Columbus himself that
 some nations on the North American seaboard honored
 The Memory of One MadOc.
 or Matec, who was "a hero or perhaps
 the god worshipped by the nations of that country"
 The records of the Mexican royal family of the house of Montezuma al- so state that the Emperor of that
 name, on his submission to CorteZ,
 stated that his race was of foreign ex- | traction, having entered that country by sea. and conquered and settled in | 1t some centuries previously. And this again is quite consistent with what | early writers state as to the history and characteristics of the Mexican peo- | pie. We have references to a certain white skinned tribe called the "Padou- | cas-" and which some assert to be the
 same as the tribe of "Madocs." There Is also the fact that whiteness of thu skin avs a sigh of nobility, that ( stranger was received and honoreC | in Mexican families, and took prece- dence even over the eldest son, and us
 ually was offered the hand of the | daughter of the house.
 Much more might be adduced In con | firmation of this interesting. Welsl
 tradition, which was considered good
 enough by Southey to form the subject
 of one of his best poems. Repeatedly | during the latter half of the 18th cen | tury it was stated that Welsh settlers who penetrated into the reTHoter parts ! of North America came across tribes ot
 Indians who spoke a language which
 was distinctly analogous with Welsh | and several such incidents are alluded
 to in the early Welsh periodicals. Such i we'll known scholars as pr. Owen | Pughe, Mir Edward Williams, and oth-
 CTS dealt fully with the subject in ! their day, as also did the well-known
 historian and editor of the "Cambro'
 Briton." And withal there is the local
 tradition always associated with the