Gama's fleet reaches Anjediva island. The next…
August 1502 CE
Gama's fleet reaches Anjediva island.
The next day, the ships of Giovanni Buonagrazia (carrying Thomé Lopes) and Lopo Mendes de Vasconcellos (Juiloa) finally catch up with the rest of the armada.
Save for the ship of Campo (still stuck in Africa) and Serrão (on patrol around the Mozambique factory), all the Portuguese fleet (eighteen ships out of the twenty that left Lisbon) are together and accounted for.
Around Anjediva island, the armada spots three boats belonging to Timoja, the Hindu privateer who operates out of Honnavar, on the frontline between the warring states of Muslim Bijapur and Hindu Vijayanagar.
They give chase …
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