Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in a squadron of three square-riggers, the Sao Gabriel, the Sao Raphael, the … Portuguese squadron rounded the Cape on 22 November, and three days later, the battered ships sailed into Santa Bras … the hazardous coast of Pondoland, which they named Natal. Three days later, they were enjoying good fishing off a point …