ABOUT VIMDE

1540 before any Portuguese support could achieve him. Yet, Estevão da Gama dispatched a firm of four hundred Portuguese musketeers under the command of his younger brother Christovão da Gama from Massawa in 1541, all of whom attained the courtroom of Glawdewos, Lebna Dengel’s son and successor, by the top of the year. For the Portuguese, this c