Show I WHERE 11 DID COLA unUS LAND LAN The old argument as to where Christopher Columbus landed lauded upon the lie occasion of his celebrated first visit to the western hemisphere has brol broken en out afresh The contentions this his way and that appear to prove proveno no o more now than similar ones have done one in the past and it is quite likely likey like- like I ly y that unless some hitherto unsuspected unsuspected document shall turn up the exact landing place of or Columbus will never be definitely known It Il is known that Columbus landed on oil u one of or the Bahama islands but butIn butin In n that widely scattered group there are re thirty six pieces of land large enough to be classed as islands and about cays cats or keys kes like those which lie along the Florida coast and in some cases well out to sea The earl early narratives have It t that Columbus landed at or on a place which the native Indians called and which the Spaniards named San Salvador or Holy Savior Cat at island has been given as the landing land laud fug ing ug place of Columbus and so has Island key or Samana has been chosen by some as the place which Columbus called San Salvador and other investigators tors ors who may be termed authorities have lave picked ed Turks island and others have lave chosen the island of Mariguana Although there is a wide difference difference difference differ differ- ence of opinion as to just where Columbus landed all concerned Inthe in inthe the he dispute seem well ar greed that he le landed somewhere o 0 o |