Oh, what would it have been like to have been a fly on the bulkhead in Columbus’ ships.
Some content has been unfortunately lost to mankind. A monk wrote a second hand rendition of Columbus’ personal diaries and we do have that. There might have been some motivation to minimize the ugly and maximize the beautiful, as might happen when talking about any religious man’s checkered mortal life from which lessons might be taught. It would certainly have needed a man of faith to carry out a mission of such risk and uncertainty.
The revisionists seem to work overtime to discredit anything good brought to this country by the Europeans.