One of the principal sea captains of Palos was named Martin Alonso Pinzon.

He became so interested that he offered to lend Columbus money enough to make one last appeal to the king and queen of Spain, and if Columbus should succeed with them, this Captain Pinzon said that he would go into partnership with Columbus and help him out when it came to getting ready to sail to Cathay.
This was a move in the right direction.

At once a messenger was sent to the splendid Spanish camp before the city of Granada, the last unconquered city of the Moors of Spain.

The king and queen of Spain had been so long trying to capture Granada that this camp was really a city, with gates and walls and houses.

It was called Santa Fe.