The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-30
BY FRANCES MARSHALL.

BENJAMIN Franklin, wise diplomat
and homeIy philosopher: "Rare' Ber
Jopsou, playwright and friend OF
Shakespeare, Bartholomew Murillo. one
of the greatest of Spain s great ar
fists; Benjamin Harrison. twenty-thlro
president of the United States; Ben
iamin Disraeli. noted statesman anc
novelist of the Victorian reign; Benla
min West, one of the first of Amer
lean painters; Bartolomeo Eustachio. a
founder of Italian anatomy; Benjamin
the Hebrew patriarch, and the two
apostles. Nathaniel, called Bartholo
maios. and Barnabus-these men would
bring distinction to any name
But, striking as these men may he. II
is little group of not very well known
travellers who give the names Benla
min. Bartholomew and Baruabus their
most romantic interest. They were men
of daring and bravery. who Tisked up'
known perils and known dangers when
the east was a tabled mecca, the west
ern world was undreamed of or only
rumored. and the sea was still path
less waste.
The first of them was Abraham of
Tudela. Jewish rabbi. who lived IN
tho twelfth century. He was Span,
lard, born at Tudels, in Navarro. and
he is famed as one of the earliest Euro
pean travellers of modern time. About
1859 be started out to travel IN the
east He journeycd through Italy and
Greece. then through Asia Minor, and
finally to Persia. He visited Bagdad
in this travels and his account of the
brick-walIed city. then at the height of
its magnifcence, its splendid mosques
and richly decorated palaces, the
swarming Of commerce of the east. is
the earliest European account Of this
city of the caliphs. And although his
writings here and there contain uDre-
liable statements, they form a valuable
record.
Bartholomew Dias. born about l445,
came of family famous for sailors.
He was a Portuguese. and began &C.
tive life as gentleman of the royal
household In 1856 he was made COM
mander of one of two small vessels
which were setting out to explore the
south along the African coast, farther
south than any European craft had ever
sailed before. Finally, q storm arose,
and for thirteen days the boat was
driven due south IN the open sea. The
sailors, who had Just been through the
tropics, suffered bitterly with the cold,
and begged Bartholomew to take them
home again.
AS soon as the storm cleared. Dias
turned his PROV to the cast. hoping to
End the African coast again, and follow
it to the north. But he sailed on aud
on, and did not find land. so he decided
TO go north. Then, much to his sur.
prise. after sailing in that direction for
short time. he sighted land to the
west. Unknown to his men and to him
self, he had been driven south of the
Cape of Good Hope. and had turned the
southern end of Africa.
The next three noted travellers to
bring fame to these names explored the
world to the west of them.
Bartholomew, brother of Christopher
Columbus, was born in 1445 He was
friend and associate of Dias, and
went with the latter on some Of his
earlier explorations Of the African
coast. He was a strong believer in his
brothers. claims that somewhere in the
west a way could be found to the treas-
ure-laden east; and he went to England