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  THE 
  NATIONAL 
  GEOGRAPHIC 
  MAGAZINE 
  

  

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  Service 
  

  

  AN 
  OLD 
  CATHEDRAL 
  WHICH 
  ONCK 
  CONTAINED 
  THE 
  BONES 
  OE 
  A 
  COLUMBUS: 
  

  

  HAVANA, 
  CUBA 
  

  

  When 
  Haiti, 
  the 
  Island 
  of 
  the 
  Twin 
  Repuhlics, 
  was 
  ceded 
  to 
  France, 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  

   eighteenth 
  century, 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  some 
  one 
  who 
  was 
  thought 
  to 
  he 
  Christopher 
  Columbus 
  

   were 
  transferred 
  to 
  Havana, 
  where 
  they 
  remained 
  for 
  a 
  time 
  in 
  this 
  cathedral 
  before 
  they 
  

   were 
  taken 
  to 
  Spain, 
  in 
  [898, 
  It 
  is 
  now 
  believed 
  that 
  only 
  the 
  bones 
  of 
  a 
  kinsman 
  of 
  

   Columbus 
  were 
  taken 
  hack 
  to 
  the 
  Old 
  World, 
  and 
  that 
  Santo 
  Domingo 
  is 
  still 
  the 
  resting 
  

   place 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  discoverer. 
  

  

  