New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 5, 1930, Page 31

77 Unearthinga Pirate Career for C e 1 AN 1y R:d."j &"’QZ%@'M. In This Leaden Casket, in San Domingo, Arc Bgnes Which Are Supposed to Be Those of Christopher Columbus. They Are of Special Significance Now, for Professor Ulloa, of Peru, Says That the Navigator Sailed Under the Buccaneer's Flag—of Skull and Crossbones. AS he a hero—or was he a rogue? He sailed the seas more ably than most men. But as a roving buccaneer, under the black emblem of the crossbones and skull— or as a loyal servant of her maje: which? For centuries the world has stead- fastly believed that Christopher Colum- bus was an honest dreamer who spent long years poring over charts and maps in an effort to solve the intricate my teries of fifteenth century geogra and then, after a series of rebuffs, s out to sea under the colors of the Queen of Spain and landed at San Domingo on October 12, 1492, The discovery of a new continent being an achievement worthy of recog- nition, even on the part of the most 5 cynical, the name of Columbus has Four Hundred and Thirty-Eight Years Ago, Tradition Has It, Christopher Columbus Tied His come down through the years a s Vessel to This Enormous Tree in San Domingo, When He Made What Has Been Generally of greatness. Many of the United Accepted as the Discovery of the New World. Note the Size of the Trunk in “ontrast E ¢ a day in honor of 1o the M d what people have always R D believed his brilliant career. Hi is on the tongue of the mere. boy, and he has been immor inspirational vers Yet now, four hundred and thirty- eight years after the humble Genoese sailor is said to have landed in the New World, a distinguished scholar of world renown has claimed that Columbus was a pirate; he has further claimed that the famed captain of the Santa Maria was neither an idealistic dreamer nor a native of Genoa, but instead a radical revolutionist and a Catalonian. the same savant, a, director of the Library at Lima, stated a few weeks ago: “After eight months of study among # . archives in Madrid, where I # , A % ' : oy True. much hitherto unknown, authen- / . \ i tic and incontrovertible material, I can i at Columbus paid 1120 8000 e o oy g N & AR T A OO O 5 LA A5 i 98 NI R SN 000 202020 Just Onc of the Great Memorials to Christopher Columbus, Upon Whose Memory inister Cloud May Be Cast If the Allegations of Dr. Ulloa of Peru Are Proven This Statue Is Seventy Feet Tall, and Was Erected in Palos, Spain. Spain to San Domingo. But if they opinion that hé ylrns a na\t_iveB of his first visi ' Jorld by wav e iTEYs ; 8 were here, either as explorers or as f allestoros Y. Ber- e o e B f . ; ; ict freebooters, most people are willing to ctta, most distinguished of Spanish his- Newfoundland before 'America’s offi- 8 1 m credit for the new worl }, mnans,chasl denied that the explorer cial discovery, i . vas i And if Columbus came with was 2 Catalonian. Cifr:t‘g("zca-‘if‘?fhIeméec;lrn}:‘exni(rxenhg'“an - band of men from the north, his t, more than a year ago, the S S S s would ot be likely 1o fee Academy of ~History an- what is going to h‘lpppen to that légrgé 2 by the revelation that he was a ci ::jiter;x:ensxvi m\;est\gfltimn fon' of/the world’s history, whi P y p i i . i 2 8 t it had nothing to show to contra- portion of the world’s history which § y " z S . & - s > i adrid newspaper offered a prize of 3 i ] i % § 25,000 pesetas (about §2,500) for the best work proving that Columbus was Spanish. The contest was abandoned when no suitable papers were received absolutely proving the point. On the other hand, those of the old school, who believe that the explorer world was reached by ad- was a native of Genoa, point to his venturers from Europe 1, without the aid of Spanish writings in which they say he often re- “previous to 1492 is not a he made the previous discovery ferred to himself as a Genoese. Of The Fifteenth Century Suit of Mail Worn by Columbus on Public Occusions About the Court of Isabella of Spain. IR 001010900110 Street Scene in Modern Santo Domingo, Not Far From the Spot Where Columbus Landed in 1492. This Is the City Recently Devastated by a Terrific Hurricane. Professor Ullos Claims That Columbus Had Been in America, Probably in New England or in Florida, Before His Voyage on the Sunta Maria. revolves about the career of Colum- Lither it will have to be re- the new claims m [t is likely that will be required for rians to weigh the fin 1 and much more t may have to pass before an authoritative verdict can be rendered. Of course, the claim that the new new one. There are some who have believed for many years that the hardy semen made landings along the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire and sachusetts. In fact, upposition that in- from the countries not only t r site of Boston more before Columbus was born, but also navigated heir way up the historic Charles River, ttested by one monument which nd at Norumbega. A tablet t of the tower recites as a fact a visit of the Norsemen in the twelfth century. But even if the Norsemen did reach the shores of America before the time of Columbus—even if they did sail up the placid Charles to Norumbega, they accomplished a feat of navigation hardly comparable to a sailing from of the American continent. ‘“He was a Catalonian corsair, who rebelled against King Juan II of Ara- He was also a relative of a cor- named CasanovaCouill who in the service of Léu ertions made s rest upon do ented by histo forged or changed. s nego King in 149 gns of ‘doc it was state course, if there are some forgeries in the record, these writings may be for- geries, too. But historians point out that the finding of many people bear- ing the name of *“Colom” in Galicia and Catalonia has misled those who are now seeking to dispute the old view. One factor which tends to discredit not a Genoese, few have mportant matter of just Not long ago some inves- pointed out that a document 1 Ponte Vedra showed that he n Jew. Others have been e hailed from Huelva and still others have pointed out seriously that he came from Cadiz. the most recent contention, Dr. Ulloa intends to show that the ad- venturer’s will, dated in 1497, was a falsification. He intends to show that the famous letter of Envoy Puebla, e D alleged to prove the explorer’s Genoese origin, never existed. He has submitted he Americanists’s Congress the orig- texts, on which his claims are d, together w a bundle of code written b, Spanish envoy gland in 1498—purporting W the story of the discovery of America, ) But pirate, or no pirate, Genoese or not, Christopher Columbus is still the idol of Genoa. That ancient Italian city, all excited about preparations for a fitting celebration for October 12, of this year, allowed itself to be moved very little by Professor Ulloa’s con- tentions. There was indignation, but it was 0 min‘gled with mirth that its effect s nil. “He was of us! o think othe t_whether C with mone, ed covery, the impo people is that he crossec at a time when the rest of the worlJ believed that the earth was flat and that a voyvager on the high seas incurred the risk of sailing over its brink into unknown ter- rors. If he was a pirate, it seems that The Roman Tribute to Columbus, the This Is the Design for the Columbus he had plenty of company in his chosen for This Memorial Lighthouse, to Be Erected vocation, and at least he combined in Honor of the Explorer in sufficient ability and fortitude with . New York City. freebooting to become immortal. This Remarkable Design 1s That for i i he Col M ial in Madrid, Explorer. The and Completely Disregarding Al Aspersions the (olurbus Memerial lo Mottty B30 SUrCi Picco of Archltectare Has Palacios and Luis Moys Blanco. Received Wide Acclaim. Newspaper Feati 1o Service, 193 ident T Was a Native Son Disregarding g?fig}?efi;?ch?e?: Cast in Christopher Columbus's Direction, Citizens o Ge {oaly, Have Preserved the House in Which He ls Supposed 1o Have Lived. ‘ I I O I AN PO SN . O 1 BB AN I AN NI A5 s i) pes NN e, Y,