Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1929, Page 134

m‘*" OF THE WOoRLD> . SHOWING VASCO ' DA GAMAS FAMOUS VOVAGE FROM PoQTtuGAaL To INDIA N 1497 - !498. \/ “THE LATTER PARY OF THE - ‘ 15T CENTURY THE EXPLOR- ATIONS OF THE INTREPID> PORTUGESE MARINERS HAD PROVED THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE 70 SAIL AROUND THE SOLTHERN END OF AFRICA, AND CONVINCED THEM THAT INDIA CouLp BE REACHED BY AN ALL-WATER RoOUTE . IN 1497 KING EMMANUEL RESOLVED T0 SEND AN EXPEDI- TION OF DISCOVERY TO FIND THE LONG-SOUGHT PASSAGE To INDIA OUNDING THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE [(NOW19) THE LITTLE FLEET WAS BUFFET- . ED ABOUT BY A RAGING HURRICANE-. ' THE TERRIFIED SAILORS ROSE IN REVOLT, 'BUT THE DAUNTLESS DAGAMA QUELLED THE MUTAY AND OUTRODE THE STORM. @]«fl TROUBLE WAS BREWING. WAS THE CHIEF PORT OF THE MALABAR COASY AND THE RENDEZVOUS OF MOOR- 1S TRADERS WHO HAD LONG MONOPO- L2ED THE INDIAN TRADE. THESE MEN REGARDED THE PORTUGESE AS DANGEROUS COMPETITORS. —— © (=1 CAPE OF GOUD HOPE Chapter 158 —The Voyage of Vasco da Gama. "AANY AT 1N\ BT EFFORT OR EXPENSE IN OUTFITTING THE EXPEDITION, AND ENTRUSTED THE COMMAND OF THE VENTURE TO VASCO DA GAMA , AVALIANT SOLDIER AND EXPERIENZED NAVIGATOR. ~—* LISBON WITH FOUR. SMALL BuT SEAWORTHY VESSELS. MONTH AFTER MONTM ME BORE TO THE SOUTH. @_\nea MANY THRILLING ADVENTURES THE PORTUGESE REACHED ZANZIBAR IN APRIL, 1498, HAVING FOUND A MOORISH SAILOR THAT RNEW THE WAY 70 INDIA, DA GAMA AT ONCE SAILED EASTWARD ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN. AND ON MAY (9, 1498, VASCOS SHIPS DROPPED ANCHOR AT CALICUT ONTHE MALABAR COAST. THE PORTUGESE WERE DAZZLED BY THE SPLENDOR AND DISPLAY OF WEALTH THAT GREETED THEIR o ——— @HE MOORS WENT TO THE RAJAK OF CALICUT AND TOLD MIM THAT DA GAMA AND NIS MEN WERE PIRATES AND SHOULD BE EXTERMINATE D, BELIEVING THIS STORY THE RAJAH SENT SOLDIERS TO SE12E THE EUROPEANS, — SUCCEEDED IN GETNING ABOARD THEIR VESSELS, WHERE THEY DE- FENDED THEMSELVES GRAVELY AND FINALLY BEAT OFF THEIR By J. CARROLL MANSFIELD ASCO LANDED AT A NUMBER OF PLACES ALONG THE SHORES OF AFRICA TO PLANT STONE PILLARS CLAIMING THE LAND FORTHE RING OF PORTUGAL . | IEIHE NATIVES, SURPRISED To SEE EUROPEANS, RECEI\VED TME EX~ PLORERS COURTEOUSLY, DA GaMmA SPENT SEVERAL WEEILS LOADING HIS SHIPS WITH PEPPER,CLOVES,CINNAMON. GINGER AND PRECIOUS STONES, == @A GAMA SET SaIiL FOR PORTUGAL ON Jury 10,498, A VBAR LATER ON TME= SAME DATE HE REACHNED LISBON AND WAS GREETED WITH WILD ENTHUSIASM, ——o Soon PorTuGESE MERCMANT FLEETS FoLLoweED THE TRAIL VASCO HAD BLAZED TO INDiA, TRADING STATIONS WERE PLANTED IN THE EAST, AND PORTUGAL SPRANG INTO PROMINENCE AS A COMMERCAL NATION., = -