COLUMBUS’S SHIP.
Christopher Columbus, resting beneath a very massive tomb in Cathedral, will go voyaging in hi» Santa Maria no more. But next spring a new Santa Maria will start forth on his centuries old voyage. The new caravel is made exactly like the' old. It stands by the same wharf of Palos, on the Rio Tinto, from which Columbus set out towards the setting sun.
Ono day next spring the King of Spain will come to Palos, archbishops and courtiers will come with him, and with Hie same ceremony in the days of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, the new Santa Maria will set sail down the river for the open sea.
On her DQ-foot deck she will carry a block of stone from the Palos quarries, aud this will be the pedestal of the statue to Columbus in San Domingo, where the dominion which was to be the New Spain was sighted at 2 o’clock on a Friday morning in October, 1492.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 24 (Supplement)
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