António de Saldanha is still stuck in …
Years: 1503 - 1503
October
António de Saldanha is still stuck in South Africa (he leaves his own note at the watering hole in Mossel Bay in in October.
Rui Lourenço Ravasco had meanwhile left Mozambique Island and moored his ship in Kilwa, waiting for his captain.
The summer monsoon winds are long gone, so there is no hope of an Indian Ocean crossing this year.
The captains of the third squadron, stuck in Africa until the next summer, content themselves with plucking prizes.
Rui Lourenço Ravasco has quickly made a nuisance of himself.
He had grabbed a few ships off Kilwa, before being reminded that Vasco da Gama had already extorted 'tribute' from Kilwa and thus the city is protected.
Sailing up to Zanzibar to find more prey, ...
Locations
People
- Afonso de Albuquerque
- Diogo Fernandes Pereira
- Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- Estêvão da Gama
- Gaspar da Gama
- João da Nova
- Manuel I of Portugal
- Nicolau Coelho
- Vasco da Gama
Groups
- Hinduism
- Arab people
- Khoikhoi
- Indian people
- Christians, Eastern (Diophysite, or “Nestorian”) (Church of the East)
- Swahili people
- Nair
- Islam
- Kilwa Sultanate
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Cochin, Kingdom of
- Castile, Crown of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Portuguese Empire
- Vijayanagara, (Saluva) Kingdom of
- Adil Shahi dynasty (Bijapur, Sultanate of)
- Mutapa, Kingdom of
- Portuguese Mozambique
Topics
- India, Medieval
- Sub-Saharan Africa, Medieval
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Age of Discovery
- Colonization of the Americas, Portuguese
- Colonization of the Americas, Spanish
- Columbian Exchange
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
