Explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… else is known about his early life. Da Gama was said to have been educated in the town of Evora, where he studied … previous explorers, such as Bartholomew Dias, had turned back after making landfall on the southern African coast, Da … the east African shoreline. They were the first Europeans to call at the port of Mombasa, but having been met with some …