Exploring Cape Town, Africa in the 1500's

Left Portugal

Jan 1, 1501

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

Landing at Cape Town

Sep 22, 1501

Sailed for many days , seas were rough, no land in sight, saw seagulls flying, and new land was close

Left Cape Town

Nov 23, 1501

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.

Port Mombasa

Dec 25, 1501

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.

Left Mombasa

Jul 10, 1502

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.

Port Mogadishu

Jul 30, 1502

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