Vasco Da Gama

The first European to discover the sea route to India he lives on in marine history With Columbus and Tasman and Amerigho and other great men of the sea The Portuguese Vasco Da Gama ventured far from his native shore Even further than his countryman Dias had travelled a decade before. He's been dead for nearly five centuries but his name out of history won't fade The adventures of Vasco Da Gama the stuff of which legends are made One of the great early explorers he died in fifteen twenty four When he was in his early fifties though his fame will live forever more. Many of his sailors died of scurvy and few of them lived to be old Theirs was the lot of the sea farers in their great adventures for gold But to their end they remained true to Da Gama and with him they sailed the high seas And with them took to other cultures the culture of the Portuguese. One of the great early explorers his legend is still living today The one who died in Cochin in India from Portugal so far away He risked the wild waves fraught with danger in his quest for fortune and fame And he discovered the sea route to India and Vasco Da Gama was his name.