Vasco da Gama — "You could cook and eat a curry made from his envoy's limbs."

You could cook and eat a curry made from his envoy's limbs.
Vasco da Gama — Vasco da Gama Early Modern · Sea route to India

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Message conveyed to the Zamorin of Calicut after Vasco da Gama had cut off the nose, ears, and hands of a Brahmin envoy and strung them around his neck.

Date: 1502

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