[hanamizu]

No he had to get most of his crew from prisons because people knew that the earth was much bigger then he said it was.

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I don’t know that the crew knew that, but that’s why he was rejected by every monarch he approached with his crazy idea. Spain was pretty feeling pretty generous after the Reconquista and took a chance on him.

The thing is, he thought he found what he was looking for—islands off of a continent—filled with people with long straight black hair, speaking strange languages and eating strange food, right where he expected to find it.

And yes, his math was rubbish.

[Redcitizen]

“ filled with people with long straight black hair, speaking strange languages and eating strange food...”. Even now some of us are commenting and lurking on Freerepublic.