It was at this moment that Isabella said, "The enterprise is mine, for the Crown of Castile.

I pledge my jewels for the funds." The funds were in fact advanced by St.Angel, from the ecclesiastical revenues under his control.

They were repaid from the gold brought in the first voyage.

But, always afterward, Isabella regarded the Indies as a Castilian possession.

The most important officers in its administration, indeed most of the emigrants, were always from Castile.
Columbus, meanwhile, was on his way back to Palos, on his mule, alone.
But at a bridge, still pointed out, a royal courier overtook him, bidding him return.