[312] Plans of the chancel, with the disposition of the tombs in 1540 or 1541, as now supposed, are given in Tejera, p. 10; Cocchia, p. 48, etc.
[313] Published both in French and English at Philadelphia in 1796.
[314] Harrisse, Los restos, p. 47.
[315] Navarrete, ii. 365; Prieto’s Exámen, p. 20; Roque Cocchia, p. 280; Harrisse, Los restos, app. 4.
[316] Irving’s account of this transportation is in his Life of Columbus, app. i. Cf. letter of Duke of Veraguas (March 30, 1796) in Magazine of American History, i. 247. At Havana the reinterment took place with great parade. An oration was delivered by Caballero, the original manuscript of which is now in the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Library (cf. Proceedings, ii. 105, 168). Prieto (Los restos) prints this oration; Navarrete (vol. ii. pp. 365-381) gives extracts from the official accounts of the transfer of the remains.
[317] The Spanish consul is said to have been satisfied with the precautions. Cf. Do existen depositadas las cenizas de Colon? by Don José de Echeverri (Santander, 1878). There are views of the Cathedral in Hazard’s Santo Domingo, p. 224, and elsewhere.
[318] Which some have supposed was received in Columbus’ body in his early piratical days.
[319] This plate was discovered on a later examination.
[320] Both of these inscriptions are given in fac-simile in Cocchia, p. 290; in Tejera, p. 30; and in Armas, who calls it “inscripcion auténtica—escritura gótica-alemana” of the sixteenth century.
[321] Fac-similes of these are given in the Informe de la Real Academia, Tejera (pp. 33, 34), Prieto, Cocchia (pp. 170, 171), Shea’s paper, and in Armas, who calls the inscription, “Apócrifas—escritura inglesa de la épocha actual.”