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Exploring Cape Town, Africa in the 1500's

  • Jan 1, 1501

    Left Portugal

    Left Portugal
    Left Portugal early New Year's morning, heading south in the Atlantic Ocean. Assign crew duties, and weather was nice.
  • Sep 22, 1501

    Landing at Cape Town

    Landing at Cape Town
    Sailed for many days , seas were rough, no land in sight, saw seagulls flying, and new land was close
  • Nov 23, 1501

    Left Cape Town

    Left Cape Town
    Sailed away from Cape Town, searching for new adventures. Weather was nice at first but we sailed into a violent storm, it was rocking our ship. The crew was stressed, some were getting sea sick, and mutiny was beginning to appear.
  • Dec 25, 1501

    Port Mombasa

    Port Mombasa
    Landed in Mombasa on Christmas morning.Natives were not verry welcoming. They have never seen white people before.There was a lush vegatation, we restocked our ship with a lot of vegatables,fruits, gold, and jewels.
  • Jul 10, 1502

    Left Mombasa

    Left Mombasa
    We left Mombasa heading South, and ran into a bad storm. We thought we were heading South but we were heading North.On our journey we were attacked pirates, they stole all our suplies and they killed most of the crew.We barely made it to Mogadishu.
  • Jul 30, 1502

    Port Mogadishu

    Port Mogadishu
    It was not a welcoming area, people were fighting everywhere.