Vasco De Gama and the Portuguese Fleet

Vasco de Gama arrived in Mombasa on March 10th, 1498. He was greeted by the locals with gifts but soon found out that they were just trinkets. The Sultan asked for a pilot and when none of them could produce one he began to suspect Vasco wasn't what he appeared. After three days of fighting his men drove him back from the city then fled as their water stocks ran low. On April 14th, 14 98 they arrived at the city of Malindi in modern-day Kenya. Here the reception was much more friendly, albeit the Gama refused to go ashore,. However, as a show of goodwill he did release his prisoners.