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The crew of Columbus – 1912

Christopher Columbus - 1519 Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547) Metropolitan Museum of Art wikipedia.org
Christopher Columbus – 1519
Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
wikipedia.org
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BLAIRMORE ENTERPRISE 9TH MAY, 1912
THE CREW OF COLUMBUS
– (abridged)
The list of the officers and sailors in the first voyage of Columbus was almost cosmopolitan in its character Among them there was a man of Jewish heritage, Luis de Torres; an Irishman from Galway Ireland, William Harris; an Englishman, Arthur Laws; Italians, Portuguese, Spaniards and several other nationalities, though, of course, the Spaniards were largely in the majority.
It is maintained by some authorities, with considerable plausibility too, that there was a Scotchman in the list and that after Columbus himself he was the first man to tread the soil of the new world – Exchange

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