Myth of Vasco da Gama busted ! Europeans have credited him for discovering the sea route to India after failure of Christopher Columbus, who ended up in America.
Vasco da Gama had recorded in his diary that upon his arrival at Zanzibar in East Africa he saw a docked ship three times bigger than his own. He took an African interpreter to meet the owner of that ship Chandan, a Gujarati trader who used to bring pine wood and teak from India along with spices and take back diamonds to Cochin.
When Vasco da Gama went to meet him, Chandan was sitting in ordinary attire, on a cot. When the trader asked Vasco where he was going, the latter said that he was going to visit India. Listening to this, the trader said that he was going back to India the very next day and if he wanted, he could follow him.
Vasco da Gama followed Chandan to reach the shores of India, a fact that was hidden by europeans for many years.
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