Other towns are _Enriquillo_, formerly called _Petitru_ (Petit Trou) on the coast 22 miles south of Barahona; _Neiba_, 32 miles northwest of Barahona, founded a century ago and prevented from developing by the damages it sustained first in the Haitian, then in the civil wars; and _Duverge_, formerly called _Las Damas_, which commands a fine view of Lake Enriquillo with Cabras Island in the distance. In the northwest corner of the province is the small collection of huts called _Tierra Nueva_, and a few miles beyond, isolated in a wild region on the frontier, the inland customhouse of _Las Lajas_. CHAPTER XVII THE REMAINS OF COLUMBUS Burial of Columbus.--Disappearance of epitaph.--Removal of remains in 1795.--Discovery of remains in 1877.--Resting place of Discoverer of America. The greatest pride of the Dominican people is that they are the custodians of the mortal remains of Christopher Columbus. The same honor is claimed by Spain, but a Dominican would consider it almost treasonable to doubt the justice of the Dominican claim. It is a strange freak of fate that not only should the great navigator have been denied in life the rewards promised him, not only should the new world he discovered have been given the name of another, but that his very tomb is a matter of controversy. It is admitted that after his death in Spain his remains were transferred to Santo Domingo City and there deposited in the cathedral. In 1795, when the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo was ceded to France, the Spaniards carried with them to Cuba what they supposed were the remains of Columbus, and these were in 1898 taken to Spain, but in the year 1877 another casket was brought to light in the Santo Domingo cathedral, with inscriptions which indicated that it contained the bones of the great Discoverer.