Wasikeda Gama (1469 -1524), the Portuguese maritime captain, is the first to India by sea travel of Europeans. 1497, Portugal's King Manuel I sent an expedition he led teams to find a sea route to India. Portugal and the East quite eager to control the value of trade. Da Gama and his entourage, including four boats and 170 people, many of them have been convicted prisoners. A section of this voyage to the Cape of Good Hope has been known by people, but that is a storm repeatedly navigation. Da Gama had to deal with mutiny, fierce storms and crew suffering from scurvy, and so on.
? Dongdu fleet in the Indian Ocean, along the east coast of Africa before moving north. Da Gama local navigator to guide and allow him to own communications weather conditions. Fleet finally arrived in May 1498 the southwest coast of India Calicut (Ji Jin Kozhikode). Da Gama in the return of former rulers and India signed a trade agreement.
? Top of the range it is extremely difficult. More and more people died of scurvy, at home only 55 people. 1502, Da Gama shoulders the right to seek more trade mission to India again. At the 3rd voyage to India, he died in 1524 Rezheng.
