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Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 THE TOMB OF COLUMBUS IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SANTO DOMINGO CITY: SANTO 



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When the Spaniards undertook to remove the ashes of the great discoverer from Santo 

 Domingo to Havana, they apparently made a mistake and took the casket containing the 

 bones of his son, Diego, instead; for later, when the cathedral was being remodeled, a leaden 

 casket was found, the inscriptions on and in which tend conclusively to show that it contains 

 Christopher Columbus' ashes. The most painstaking care was taken to establish the identity 

 of the casket found, and practically every unbiased investigator agrees with the historian of 

 Columbus, John Boyd Thatcher, that his ashes repose in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo 

 instead of at Sculla, Spain, as the Spaniards believe. 



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