" Cristóbal was certain he had arrived at islands offshore of the Indies but believed his inability to decipher the precise location was due to the Indians having different names for places or little knowledge of geography. He briefly succumbed to a frustration vividly echoing that he had felt when unable to make Bishop Talavera’s commissions understand. He reflected that these peoples were clever, but that the inability to converse with them rendered confirming the proximity of the Grand Khan’s court as difficult as convincing the Castilian nobility that the Ocean Sea could be sailed. "

― Andrew Rowen , Encounters Unforeseen: 1492 Retold