I wholeheartedly agree.
Thank you-it isn’t like he could just sail back to Spain and tell his patrons/investors/employers Ferdinand and Isabella that he didn’t find India-or anything even close-just a bunch of people living like it was in Europe before the Roman empire.
People didn’t just get fired and have a bad reference then-for not delivering to the king and queen-and probably other stockholders/investors, he would have gotten prison and maybe lost his head-you can’t blame the guy for lying a bit and painting a picture of profits to be made to save his employment and his skin...