What do you think motivated Vasco da Gama to make his voyage?

Include evidence from the primary source document as well as information from the lesson in your response.

Write your response in at least three sentences.

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Vasco da Gama’s Voyage around Africa

[In the excerpt, the captain-major is da Gama; he is writing about himself in third person.]

On the following day (November 10) fourteen or fifteen natives came to where our ship lay. The captain-major landed and showed them a variety of merchandise, with the view of finding out whether such things were to be found in their country. This merchandise included cinnamon, cloves, seed-pearls, gold, and many other things, but it was evident that they had no knowledge whatever of such articles, and they were consequently given round bells and tin rings. This happened on Friday, and the like too place on Saturday. On Sunday (November 12) about forty or fifty natives made their appearance, and having dined, we landed, and in exchange for the çeitils [coins] with which we came provided, we obtained shells, which they wore as ornaments in their ears, and which looked as if they had been plated, and foxtails [clusters of grass] attached to a handle, with which they fanned their faces