Vasco da Gama at Calicut
“The Malabar coast, May 20, 1498. Portuguese caravels anchor in the harbor as a longboat rows ashore with the navigator. Foreground shows da Gama in a brocaded doublet, gifts piled in the boat; midground reveals merchants of Calicut watching from sandbars under palm groves; Hindu temples and the Zamorin's pavilions glow in tropical light.”
