And from Antilia to Japan it will be two hundred and twenty-five leagues." Toscanelli says again, "You see that the voyage that you wish to attempt is much legs difficult than would be thought.

You would be sure of this if you met as many people as I do who have been in the country of spices." While there were so many suggestions made that it would be possible to cross the Atlantic, there was one man who determined to do this.

This man was Christopher Columbus.

But he knew well that he could not do it alone.

He must have money enough for an expedition, he must have authority to enlist crews for that expedition, and he must have power to govern those crews when they should arrive in the Indies.