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With his remaining 13 ships full of goods he set sail for Portugal on December 28, 1502. He was able to sign treaties with the rajahs in the cities of Cochin and Cannanore. During this voyage, he bombarded the city of Calicut. Da Gama then went on to Lisbon, where he arrived in September 8, 1499, to a hero’s reception.ĭa Gama’s second voyage to India was in 1502 and was made up of 20 ships. The ship da Gama was on made it to Cape Verde, where he sent the ship on to Lisbon while he took his dying brother on a hired ship to the Azores, where his brother died. The ships became separated in a storm in April. The ships sailed on and rounded the Cape of Good Hope on March 20, 1499. By the time his ships put into Malindi (January 7, 1499), he was forced, because of losses among his crew, to burn one of his ships and proceed with only two ships. The trip back across the Indian Ocean proved to be much harder. He spent the next several months trying to work out a trade treaty with the local rajah, but because of the intervention of the local Muslim merchants, he was unable to reach an agreement and headed home at the end of August 1498. In Malindi, the local sultan gave da Gama a pilot, who left with them on April 24 as they set out to cross the Indian Ocean.ĭa Gama was successful in crossing the Indian Ocean and anchored off the city of Calicut, India, on May 20. From there they continued up the coast putting into Malindi on April 13, 1498. Making their way up the eastern coast of Africa the expedition anchored in the Kilimane River estuary, where they spent 32 days repairing their ships and nursing members of the crew who had come down with scurvy. Putting into Mossel Bay, da Gama’s crews broke up their supply ship and distributed the supplies to the other ships. Helena Bay before continuing on to the Cape of Good Hope, which they sailed around on November 22. The fleet spent the next eight days at St. When da Gama’s ships finally made landfall on November 7, they had been on the open sea for 96 days and had sailed 4,500 miles. To do this da Gama sailed his ships out into the Atlantic Ocean, eventually coming within 600 miles of South America. Image source: /thumbnails/a07eaea305f14fe867d401bd92c29d8f8e1c46e47dd35954a4f258e85481af84/vasco-da-gama-source.jpgĭa Gama wanted to avoid the Gulf of Guinea, where Dias had had problems with the weather and currents.