2-646-364 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Vasco Da Gama Visiting the King of Calicut', 1498 (c1912). In 1498 Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut. His arrival has often been considered as the beginning of a new phase during which the control of the Indian Ocean passed into the hands of the Europeans. The Zamorin initially welcomed the Portuguese and allowed them to take various goods with them.From The Romance of India, edited by Herbert Strang [Hodder & Stoughton, London, c1912]