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Travels and Adventures 



MARPI.E PULPIT, CARTHAGENA. 



about it by the people 

 reads more like ro- 

 mance than sober fact. 

 The tale has it that 

 one of the Popes, who 

 wanted to present the 

 faithful at Carthagena 

 with something to per- 

 petuate his memory, 

 and at the same time 

 to adorn the magnifi- 

 cent cathedral, ordered 

 the pulpit to be de- 

 signed and sculptured 

 by the very best artists 

 of the day in Rome. 

 When the work was 

 finished, it was placed 

 on board a Spanish 

 galley and despatched 

 to Carthagena. In the 

 course of the voyage 

 the vessel was cap- 

 tured by pirates, and 

 the boxes containing 

 the pulpit, upon being 

 broken open and 



