# The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast

Date: 1498

## The fact

In March 1498 [Gama](/people/vasco-da-gama)’s ships reached Mozambique Island, a clash of hospitality, suspicion, and gunnery. The dated east-African harbour fight is not the 1498 Calicut landfall and not the 1502 Kilwa tribute. Vasco da Gama’s documented role is: He entered a Muslim sultanate’s harbour, was received then opposed, and used guns. Local pilots and hostages sit in the journal; he did not uniquely invent Indian Ocean trade. Do not twin this with the 1502 Kilwa tribute. First-voyage clash is not second-voyage extraction. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear. Vasco da Gama's documented role is: He entered a Muslim sultanate’s harbour, was received then opposed, and used guns. Local pilots and hostages sit in the journal; he did not uniquely invent Indian Ocean trade.

## Context

A Swahili-Arab town, unnamed pilots, and a Portuguese pretence of being Muslim already structure the journal. A harbour clash is not unique authorship of the Indian Ocean. Later colonial Mozambique is not 1498. Named others on the file: The sultan of Mozambique, unnamed townspeople, and Portuguese gunners share the clash. The public setting is the file around 1498-03-02. Unnamed clerks, soldiers, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. The instrument stays The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast. The setting of The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast is the public file around 1498-03-02. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Britannica and the later journal independently date a 1498 Mozambique Island confrontation. Official: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Mozambique 1498 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Journal of the First Voyage — Mozambique English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Mozambique 1498 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Journal of the First Voyage — Mozambique English (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599; Project Gutenberg).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, Mozambique 1498 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Worsening humanitarian-access path: an armed first-voyage harbour clash. Complex received journal. Welfare reading worsening. The attached mechanism is A dated harbour clash put armed Portuguese entry into a Swahili port as a humanitarian-cost heading, distinct from Calicut. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is worsening.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1498 Mozambique confrontation. Not established: that later colonial Mozambique is this day. Established: a sourced public record of The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast under 1498-03-02. Established: a sourced public record of The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast under 1498-03-02.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin this with the 1502 Kilwa tribute. First-voyage clash is not second-voyage extraction. Mixed effects of The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is humanitarian-access. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The first voyage clashes at Mozambique Island on the east African coast. Naming Vasco da Gama does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1498-03-02 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Vasco da Gama: https://factrail.ai/people/vasco-da-gama

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-mozambique-1498