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HALL 9. 
Screens 1 and 2, — Pictures, maps, and charts relating to 
the geographical knowledge, and the science of navigation at the 
time of»Columbus. 
Screen 3. — Is a continuation with additional pictures relat- 
ing to the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella. On the walls of this 
hall, commencing at the northwest corner, and following around 
the room, things relating to, and scenes associated with, the early 
life of Columbus, his career in Spain, his voyages, discoveries, tri- 
umphant return, his last days, and his death are to be found. 
In connection with the above, attention should be given to 
Cases 21 and 22. — The doors and shutters of the house 
occupied by Columbus at Porto Santo, Madeira Islands. 
Case 23. — Replica of the doors that guard the cell in which 
are held the alleged remains of Columbus, in the Cathedral of 
Santo Domingo. 
Ko. 252 — Facsimile of a cross erected by Columbus in 1494 
after a victory over the Indians, made from the beams of the cas- 
tle in which Columbus was confined. 
Case 24. — Original door and jamb from the monastery of 
La Rabida, near Palos, Spain. 
No. 61. — The anchor of Columbus is in the northeast corner 
of the room. 
No. 62. — Sixteenth century anchor; ancient anchor extremely 
old type, which had laid in the mud on the east bank of the Ozama 
river for centuries, and, according to tradition was the property of 
Don Diego Colon. 
Case 25. — Facsimiles of the Casket and Lead Case in which 
the alleged remains of Columbus are contained. Key to the house 
at Porto Santo, Madeira Islands, where Columbus lived shortly 
after his marriage. Bricks and tiles from the original Monastery 
of La Rabida, near Palos, Spain. Some of them are supposed to be 
sixteen centuries old. 
Case 26. — V arious articles of interest from the first settle- 
ments founded by Columbus. No. 614. — Original and modern 
reprint of the Guiliano Dati poem. On the 25th cf October, 1493, 
there was printed at Florence, a metrical translation of the 
