Editing Vasco da Gama (section)

=== Malindi ===
[[File:Pillar of Vasco da Gama.jpg|thumb|[[Vasco_da_Gama_Pillar,_Malindi|Pillar of Vasco da Gama]] in [[Malindi]], in modern-day [[Kenya]], erected on the journey]]

Vasco da Gama continued north, arriving on 14 April 1498 at the friendlier port of [[Malindi]], whose leaders were in conflict with those of Mombasa. There, da Gama and his crew contracted the services of a pilot who used his knowledge of the [[monsoon]] winds to guide the expedition the rest of the way to [[Kozhikode]], located on the southwest coast of India. Sources differ over the identity of the pilot, calling him variously a Christian, a Muslim, or a [[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] Hindu. One traditional story describes the pilot as the famous Arab navigator [[Ibn Majid]], but other contemporaneous accounts place Majid elsewhere, and he could not have been near the vicinity at the time.<ref>{{cite book |last= Fernandez-Armesto |first= Felipe |title= Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration |year= 2006 |publisher= W.W. Norton & Company |isbn= 978-0-393-06259-5 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/pathfindersgloba00fern/page/178 178–179] |url= https://archive.org/details/pathfindersgloba00fern/page/178 }}</ref> None of the Portuguese historians of the time mentions Ibn Majid. Vasco da Gama left Malindi for India on 24 April 1498.{{fact|date=May 2024}}