He didn't know where he was going.
He didn't know where he'd arrived at.
And he did it on a government grant.
In other words...he was the first liberal (c8
Liberals love to piss and moan about Columbus 'bout this time every non-election year....kinda keeps 'em invigorated.
LOL
And he knew how to get back and find his way there again :)
One of the great misunderstandings of Chris Columbus...is that once he arrived there in the Caribbean....he came to grasp that his dream of the orient was a failure. He left a bunch of guys there...hoping that pity would cause the royal family to pay for another trip back...which it did. He took back some gold and some Indians....and the gold more or less convinced the royal family to front a second and third mission. Columbus returned in the second trip to find his sailors all dead...because of alittle misunderstanding probably (too many Indian babes). The new world map is based on a failed mission, and a sales job for gold. It stayed that way for well over 100 years.
He was about 5,000 years too late.