Think of the money involved the spices and all the good stuff from asia in air quotes. That stuff comes vi a land route to the mediterranean, european part of the world. Columbus was looking for a yellow banana deal and tumbled into a green banana deal. He has obviously found something valuable. And he's got to be giddy. Don't you think? This was he guy that, if you were betting on it, you were going to bet he was going to die somewhere on the way, you know, off the map to the west?