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Vous in Seat Dr. Martini Damon- Preise has aapuunced the discovery of what Burpars to be the log of the voyage of aristopher Columbus, cast into the sem amkom isto,ma""threatened, the threev ting hánggew, which carried the disale, band; në laxplorats to the New World A. description of the journal "has" boen printed by the | Bepulo "Post-Intelligeweer, which, however, misses to youch for its authenticity, Sejen- tista have ezanined it, but they too, are ohary of giving an opinion, Dr. Dazon- [refteinitàn, only one of the host, thaichaë Iviewed it who unqualifiedly inmate the mol

fuccrusted parchment contains the arigmal story of the discovery of Americ

The doctor tells us an interesting story of how the little volume man into his ponacanzoni sailor cae Berrant out Asking for clants on the gulf coast of Mexico one day in 1913 was attracted by at earthen jug, tied to m caft of logs, lying on the beach jús, shove the high water line. Branking open the jog, he found the bookDr. Darmourette wys he, obtained the, document. from the Syma by paying of a mortgage of 2000 on the home of the

CAMIOANE WRITTEN IM GERMAN › VERSE, HU

As to the genuineness of the volume, all who havi examined sitɑnew agreed, there are. | certain, fentiarm which tax credulity., For infance, the account of the voyage is Beersified in Germen. Columbus in gene

rally believed to have been a Genoese bus all known documents pertaining to his voyage and written by him baye been in

And in the construction of the verse itself is the greatest cause for doubt. À profesor of German in the University of Washington has prouqunend it to he entirely without flaw in spelling, grammar, „punctuation, meter, or, rhyme.. The writers of the Filsbenth Century Tice not sticklers | for Unguistic accuracy. Written in Colum. bus time, the German of the log should [ be the German" of Martin Luther." In reality it approaches, mach nearer to the classical German of modern times.

GE SMOKING INDIANS. Though German, the letters are drawn in Roman print, so carefully that they have simes the fccuracy of printed type. Every page is illustrated. Here the tech aigne is more that of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' than of the fifteenth, The illustration, of; one page, în, particular must fake the breath of the reader who | starts through the volume with a precon- ceived belief in ità validity.. - A group of Cuban Indian are pictured smoking“ cigara. The Indians might have been taken from in front of some cigar store of a half con fury ago. The cigar themselves have a Martling "resemblance to those of today, * do the attitudes of the smokers. ~ One holds his roll of tobacco between two Angers will all the delioncy of 4 John Drew, while another carros kis at an Uncle Joe Canon THE with the fre end ind ximity to hit left o

The parchment cover of the book, which is about the air of a modern monthly m gazine, is encrusted with what appear ta be tiny barnacles. The paper is vellam, almost un "eighth of an inch thick The leather thongs; which half it together, are almost worn away in places, but in all the volume presenta sa appearance of surpris. ing preservation for one of its alleged age. But here is the argument in favour of its validity. It dates and names are his torically correct: Columbus is knowa to haye anled his log in a case and thrown bit/overboard" when, in a terrific storm, on the rotara voyage, it seemed that his little fect must be sunk. The signataro tallies with those of other documents of the ur- plorer, conceded to be authentic.

Another "on, the, title page purporta" ta explain why the roedd was written in German. In order that others, may not Fnderstand, I am writing in a foreign tonghs which they will not be able to decy- pher," it says The finder is exhorted to

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