He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
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