35/149 Hieronimo di Santo Stefano, a Genoese, visited Malabar and the Coromandel coast, Ceylon and Pegu. Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape, sees Natal (Christmas Day) and Mozambique, lands at Zanzibar, and crosses to Calicut. John Cabot re-discovers Newfoundland. Columbus on his third voyage discovers Trinidad and the Orinoco. Amerigo Vespucci discovers Venezuela. |