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Article: Columbus's lost crew had an African connection; Chemical analysis of the teeth and skeletons buried at the La Isabela settlement in the Dominican Republic has yielded surprising results, writes Kari Lydersen.(News)
- Article from:
- The Star (South Africa)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2009
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The first planned colonial town in the New World was founded in 1494 when about 1 200 of Christopher Columbus's crew members from the 17 ships that made up his second journey to the Americas settled on the north coast of what is now the Dominican Republic.
Beset by mutiny, mismanagement, hurricanes and disease, the settlement of La Isabela lasted only a few years.
The ruins remained largely intact until the 1950s, when a local official reportedly misunderstood the order from dictator Rafael Trujillo to clean up the site in preparation for visiting dignitaries, and had them mostly bulldozed into the sea. Little remained but the skeletons below ground in ...
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Article: The dead dog. (Columbus In La Isabela).(Poem)
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November 1, 2001 ;
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..."That is Christopher Columbus' dog." A burial casket dug by archaeologists left stranded on the porch, an oval of hard clay, a murmur of bones, of decay, and that is Christopher Columbus' dog. Did he get his share of ship's rations? Did he cower in the Mess through the worst of storm? Oh,
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