Is There Any Way to Verify the Accounts From Columbus?

A lot of the information we have about this moment of contact comes directly from columbus and the priests who sailed with him. But as you mention, this is a really one sided view of the accounter. Is there any way for historians to verify the information in those accounts? Especially because columbus was a really well known embellisher. He often wrote accounts to the spanish crown,. You know, talking himself and everything that he was doing up... I've found all these riches, whenhe really hadn't.

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