Cabral leaves smoldering Calicut on December 24,…

December 1500 CE

Cabral leaves smoldering Calicut on December 24, unsure of what to do next.

At the suggestion of Gaspar da Gama (the Goese Jew who had been accompanying the expedition), Cabral sets sail south along the coast towards the Cochin kingdom, a small Hindu Nair city-state at the outlet of the brackish Vembanad lagoon in the Kerala backwaters.

Half-in-vassalage and half-at-war with Zamorin's Calicut, Cochin has long chafed at the dominance of its larger neighbor and is looking for an opportunity to break away.

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