portrait in the British Museumĭiary has not yet been determined. “Roteiro,” a journal of Vasco da Gama’s voyage written by a member of the expedition, although theĪfter a MS. Hisįirst visit to the city of Calicut and his reception at the Zamorin’s court are well described in the
The favour of the Zamorin, or native ruler of the place, he was able to establish, between the Indian states and his ownĬountry, a series of friendly relations for trade and commerce, which proved of the greatest importance to Portugal. Rounding the Cape of Good Hope, arrived on May 20, 1498, at Calicut in Malabar, on the southeast coast of India. The command of a Portuguese fleet for an expedition to the East, set sail from Lisbon in the summer of 1497, and after This celebrated voyager, whom King Manuel of Portugal commissioned with The voyage which the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama made to India at the close of the fifteenth century hasįrequently been mentioned in the preceding volumes, especially in the sixth a brief selection from the contemporaryĪccounts of it may therefore be welcomed here. Chapter 6 – The Portuguese Navigator Vasco Da Gama at Calicut and His Reception by the Zamorin 1498 A.D. Home Top menu Table of Contents Previous: Chapter 5 Next: Chapter 7 Chapter 6 – The Portuguese Navigator Vasco Da Gama at Calicut and His Reception by the Zamorin
