And precisely because of understanding, he was very certain that Columbus's descriptions of the East were boundless fantasies, with almost no real understanding. Columbus's navigation plan was also riddled with errors. A five-thousand-kilometer westward voyage—not to mention reaching the East—it would be a miracle to reach anywhere ten thousand kilometers away from the East...
Yet such an utterly unreliable person, holding a ridiculous sea chart, recklessly set out westward into the sea, and in just two or three months of navigation... surprisingly discovered a piece of land in the deep sea that was suspected to be the East?!
