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Show SATS THREEMEN FOUND AMERICA Danish Scientits Asserts Erick-son Erick-son and Skolp Preceded Columbus WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 How j mnn persons discovered America before be-fore Christopher Columbus? The latest addition to the line of Claimants Is Jon Skolp. a Norwegian explorer. Sofus Lartsen, a Oanish sci-lentlsl sci-lentlsl who hus recently made a report founded on researches of archives of the middle ages, has completed a work rhich he s.ts proves that Skolp, the Norwegian "rediscovered America - in i 17'. it; .,irs ahefi of Columbus and twenty years before .lohn Cabot reached reach-ed the Strait of Hudson. TWO BEFORE COIiUBIBUS. Larson uses the term ' rediscovered' rediscover-ed' considering that th original dis- coverer wus Lc-i Brlcksson, tne Xorse-man, Xorse-man, In the yeai louo. Larsen'a re- ' rchea develop, he sa.s, that about 1475 the klnc of Portugal sent a mc-s-.-tarre to the king of Denmark and Nor-! way, Christian I, requesting him to fit out an expedition and attempt to find a sea passage to Asia In reality a northwest passage Aii old doeu-J mcnt to that etiect was- found in the Danish state archives. The expedl-' tion was he.nifd bj the Norwegian German privateer Captain Dldrikl I'lnlng and piloted h the Norwegian, pilot, Jon Skolp, to whom credit i given foi having reached aa far as Labrador and found p-irt of the actual I entrance to the nortnwest passage. In an old Spanish genera pliical work ' on America, iirst pubhsncd In 1 5 ." 2 by Francesco Lopez de Oomara, a priest ' of Seville, it la mentioned thai Labrador Lab-rador was reached foi the nr.st time' by Norwegian sailors, piloted bj John; Seolvijs (John S !;...! pi This i n form a - ' tion was first made public bj the Norwegian Nor-wegian professoi of history, Quatavl Storm. In 1886 But nt that time t hl 1 part of tho hlstorj of the dlscoeries! was still in its Infancy, and l.--olaied as it was then, the information nat- jurally hail to be used with great cau-; tion Later on new material was found pointing in the same direction One !uf the fourren was a tnmous globe, dating from 1537 and made by the Dutch physician and mathematician. Gemma Prlsius, who points out that I North America was reached In 1476 bj Johannes SolvUS. DEEDS FORGOT! EX. I lohannes ScolVUS is a name un- I known in Norwegian history. Dr. Lai -sen connects it with the Norwegian I surname Skolp. w hich menus a man from the ahorea or fishing places of northern Norway. His deed became 'famous In his own times, but on account ac-count of various conditions not traceable trace-able now. it was veiled in obscurity! land forgotten The account of his voyage voy-age undoubtedly has been of significance signifi-cance to other expeditions. Norwegians Norwe-gians as well as Lnglis'n and Portuguese Portu-guese i i BYidtJof Nansen In one of his scientific- works has ptoved that even 100 years later ESngllsll explorers I were familiar With the expedition of lohannes skoip. namel when pre-parlns pre-parlns for Martin Froblsher's travel to .i enland in 1576 |