"Vasco da Gama stopped at Malindi it was something Portuguese ... He replaced the old officials with new appointees but contracted malaria and died on Christmas Eve 1524 in Cochin, now known ...

which sank in 1524 – the year the famed explorer died in India, likely from malaria. “The recent discovery of a Portuguese shipwreck in Malindi, Kenya, could be a galleon from Vasco da Gama ...

Vasco House, believed to be the house where ... We only know the story, which is that da Gama stayed here, died here, and he was buried at the church which is close to the house," said Tom.

Vasco Da Gama Pilla at Malindi in Kilifi County ... first Malindi District Commissioner J. Bell Smith who died on September 1, 1894 and Charles Arnold Frank Matthews, who was buried in 1968 ...