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- 1460-1526. Portuguese explorer. He set sail
- from Lisbon for the East Indies Mar 1500, and
- accidentally reached Brazil by taking a
- course too far W. He claimed the country for
- Portugal 25 Apr, as Spain had not followed up
- Vicente Pinzon's (c. 1460-1523) landing there
- earlier in the year. Continuing around
- Africa, he lost seven of his fleet of 13
- ships (the explorer Bartolomeu Diaz being one
- of those drowned), and landed in Mozambique.
- Proceeding to India, he negotiated the first
- Indo-Portuguese treaties for trade, and
- returned to Lisbon July 1501.
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