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Vasco
da Gama, navigator; born in Sines, Portugal, presumably
about 1469; was appointed by Emanuel of Portugal commander of an
expedition to find an ocean route to the East Indies. He sailed from
Lisbon in July, 1497, and reached Calicut in the following November,
after having sailed around the Cape of Good Hope; returned to Lisbon
in 1499; made a second voyage to India in 1502—3; and was appointed
viceroy there in the year 1524. He died in Cochin, India, Dec. 24,
1524.
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