It was necessary to enlarge the number from that at first proposed.

The increase of expense, ordered as the plans enlarged, did not please Fonseca.

To quarrels between him and Columbus at this time have been referred the persecutions which Columbus afterwards suffered.
In this case the king sustained Columbus in all his requisitions, and Fonseca was obliged to answer them.
So rapidly were all these preparations made, that, in a little more than a year from the sailing of the first expedition, the second, on a scale so much larger, was ready for sea..