"The pattern of killing, destroying and burning was soon to be given the imprimatur of Vasco da Gama himself, when in the middle of 1502 he sailed once more into the Indian Ocean. The king’s ‘almirante amigo’ now commanded twenty-five ships, the ten largest containing ‘much beautiful artillery, with plenty of munitions and weapons, all in great abundance’. Thirteen of the ships under da Gama’s command belonged to wealthy Portuguese merchants. Since his first appearance less than five years before, in command of three small vessels groping their way towards an uncertain goal, everything had changed. Da Gama was now clear about where he was going and what he meant to do. The Zamorin had ‘treated him with contumely’, so he ‘felt in his heart a great desire to go and make havoc of him’."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Historians from EnglandNon-fiction authors from EnglandJournalists from EnglandUniversity of Oxford alumni
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
page 575; chapter 22.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Seymour_Hall
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Richard Seymour Hall
Richard Seymour Hall (22 July 1925 – 14 November 1997) was a British journalist and historian, writing primarily about Africa.
4 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Richard Seymour Hall →
Related Quotes
"As his ship reached the entrance to Goa harbour, on 15 December 1515, Albuquerque died just before dawn, aged sixty-t…"
"With Calicut at his mercy, da Gama might have sent his soldiers ashore to put to the sword as many of its citizens as…"
"The transfixing of men hung in mid-air was one of the admiral’s favourite forms of execution, since it gave his soldi…"
"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"
"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"
"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"
"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"
"In 1973, Roger Deakin, a British writer and environmental activist, acquired a tumbledown sixteenth-century farmhouse…"
"Besides the darkness of the night, many minor shadows cross our paths, making the hues of Life obscure. These are not…"
"Many argue that the is inhumane, that meat is expensive, that it contains uric acid, that it may be tubercular, and s…"