Ocean's Story; or, Triumphs of Thirty Centuries Maritime Adventures, Achievements, Explorations, Discoveries and Inventions; and of the Rise and Progress of Ship-Building and Ocean Navigation, from the Ark to the Iron Steamships

CHAPTER XIX.--Da Gama and the Negroes--The Hottentots and

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Caffres--Adventure with an Albatross--The River of Good Promise--Mozambique--Treachery of the Natives--Mombassa--Melinda, and its Amiable King--Festivities--The Malabar Coast--Calicut--The Route to the Indies discovered 189