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The committee judged the promises and offers of this mission to be impossible, vain, and worthy of rejection: that (it) was not proper to favor an affair that rested on such weak foundations and which appeared uncertain and impossible...
–Talavera Commission, 1491, turning down Christopher Columbus' proposal for finding a new trade route to the Indies., .
