One a day, plus iron

In my sojourn through Spanish colonialism in the New World, we are here: Spain (Isabella of Castile) fronted the money, sent an explorer out to find shit, and shit has been found. Hooray! Now, even though it wasn't the shit Spain had EXPECTED/HOPED to find, it still got found by Spain's guy, exploring on Spain's dime, and it is, therefore, now Spain's shit, even the Pope said so. (All of this is covered in previous posts, I'm just catching up anybody who was late to the party.)

But... now Spain has to find out what the New Colonial Possession has to offer in the way of loot and if it DOES have any loot, Spain needs to get that loot safely back home to enrich the coffers.

( What to do, what to do? )