Show Columbiana Is Wholly holly Upset By Frenchman B By THOMAS TUOMAS COPE United Press Tress Stiff Staff Correspondent PARIS UP Columbus UP-Columbus Columbus made live five lve voyages to the Americas and saw the Pacific ocean long before This is 15 the opinion of Maurice Pr vat author and biographer who has written a book The Prodigious Ad Ad- ventures of Christopher Columbus refuting much historically accepted Columbiana The man erroneously known as Christopher Columbus Columbu probably was called Juan Colon and was of Mal Mai- lorcan origin according to Privat An Aristocrat An aristocrat by birth a Francis Francis- can an layman like Quen Isabella and anda a prolific and brilliant writer in CasHan Castillan Cas Cas- Han Columbus Columbu or Colon was a ana na na- vat val al engineer a mathematician and a aseer seer seer and contrary to historically accepted ac ac- legend his adventures were more planned than fortuitous He knew where he was going when hen he was on his way said vat at at This I Is 13 because he was one of history's greatest navigators and an astronomer and of first rank in his day Columbus allowed the legend e end to take root that h he was wu of Genoese orl origin ln according to the French writer His chief aim was not to discover the je Grand Khans Khan's realms or go to India Into In dia to but to to find the source of Solomons Solomon's Solomons Solo mons mon's treasure which undoubtedly was somewhere in Central America Ameri continued M. M Privat And it was Im to him for the sake ake of his delicate and dangerous mission to to hide Ide his hI identity I Visited Greenland Columbus made a trip to Green land and between 1477 and 1479 and four to o the East Indies area according to o Privat The 1492 trip known to history as the discovery of America was wao followed by another to San Salador Salvador Sal Sal- ador vador vador where Columbus anchored with the greatest t precision Privat claimed On this second trip he went up the ic coast of Cuba which he believed to o be the mainland of North America On n the next trip he again landed at San Jan Salvador though he might easily have gone one to Venezuela because he started from the Cape Verde islands But Jut he once more proved his prow prow- ess ss as a 3 navigator His fourth trip brought rought him to the Isthmus of Panama Pana ma and documents I have found prove rove Incontestably that he saw the Pacific ocean cean from what today is the coast of Colombia according to vat at Columbus Columbu died at 70 70 not at 60 60 in inis his is own bed bcd moderately wealth wealthy and nd not completely embittered Pr- Pr vat at declared |