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Setting out in his 45-foot ketch, the Mary Otis, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, will continue his colorful voyages on the trail of Christopher Columbus during the summer, this time tracing the probable route of the discoverer in the Caribbean.

From San Salvador, the Mary Otis will follow Columbus' route to Cuba, and try to settle a dispute as to where he landed there. Puerto Gibera is a "good guess," the professor said, but at least two other Cuban towns also claim the honor and have erected monuments to celebrate the event.

Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China.

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