Columbus’s trips and loss commercial route
Columbus’s trips begin after having fallen out of favor on their third trip, Kings Fernando and Isabel had never questioned Columbus as a navigator. After spending a year consumed by the impatience Columbus manages to persuade their kings to provide the ships, men and food necessary for their fourth expedition.
The Admiral on this trip was at the point of turning 50. Fourth trip 1502-1504 was in search of the Strait. Banished from the Spanish and obsessed with the search for the strait that led to India, Columbus arrives at the coast of the current Honduras on August 14, 1502. Navigate tire.
Columbus turned the coast for 48 days but is surprised by a terrible hurricane. The storm was terrible and there was never such a high and terrible storm full of foam. The wind prevented ships to move forward and did not give the opportunity to approach a coast or shore. They sailed transferring a sea echoed that boiled as if it were a boiler, a terrifying sky supported the terrible frightful waves. Columbus passes through the coast of Costa Rica but does not stop, only when he enters the Lagunas of Panama, Columbus was convinced that he had reached the narrow and was undoubtedly the most tragic moment of the entire Colombian adventure.
However, Columbus was persuaded that behind this land language there was another ocean. Despite making numerous attempts, Columbus fails to find the passage to travel the other lands, however his vision was successful and was in the exact place where 400 years later the Panama Canal will open. There Colon’s dream was dusty, Columbus’s sailor was exhaus. Despite its exhaustion Columbus manages to leave its remaining caravels in Panama Bay, when crossing the Caribbean Sea the crew is involved in another storm, already in an unfortunate state the ships are forced to dock in Jamaica where alreadyThey will not leave. Surrounded by its last sailors Columbus remains from the island for a whole year before being rescued by the Spanish Navy.
"All hope of escaping had faded, with great effort I climbed to the top shouting, calling the 4 winds to their highness and God, there was no answer there was no answer. Exhausted me asleep groaning and then I heard a voice: or slow foolish in believing and serving your God. The Indies that are such a rich part of the world, he gave them for yours, you distributed them as you understood and he gave you power for it, gave you the keys of the doors of the Oceana Sea that with such strong chains they were closed. Return to him and admit your mistake at last. Your old age will not be an obstacle ".
This phrase refers to Columbus’s mistakes on his trip along the coast and losing valued things that served them as a tool for their trips.
Basically, it was a mistake to consider Columbus an explorer, Columbus never pretendeddifficult on your third trip. These situations were completely unexpected obstacles. Columbus did everything possible to take advantage of these bad situations. In the course of his fourth trip Columbus was already tired of the obstacles of his trips that he already lost patience.
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