Facts about his exploration to China and Hong Kong
- First European person to travel to china by sea.
- Left from from Pegu( now Bago Burma) on a junk.
- He first went to the Pearl river.
- He was the first person to get to China by sea in 1513.
- He started the factories, now that place in China is still used for making things.
- He started the illegal trade between the Canton and the Malacca.
- He is also the first man to get to European man know to get to Hong Kong as we know it now.
- He is also one of the reasons that China and Portugal were so close.
- He joined the later settlements in Tuen Mun Hong Kong around 1513-1514.