Note 316 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

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.