Note 105 — SKETCHES OF JEWISH LOYALTY, BRAVERY AND PATRIOTISM IN THE SOUTH AMERICAN COLONIES AND THE WEST INDIES.

For completeness' sake we reproduce this chapter from a recent sketch in the Menorah Monthly (Vol. XIX), for September, 1895, pp. 145-148, entitled: A 16th Century document written by David Ebron, a Jewish financier in America. This newly discovered letter is perhaps the most important evidence yet furnished of the services rendered by the Jews in the discovery and financial improvement of America, and deserves to be incorporated in this work. The book containing a copy of this document was lately published in Madrid (1891), under the title: Documentos Escogidos del Archivo de la Casa di Alba. See for other particulars the above quoted article in Menorah, note. We intend publishing Ebron's letter soon in the original.