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A portrait of Vasco Da Gama with a scene depicting him embarking in 1497 with a crew of
about one hundred and fifty men on his voyage of discovery around the Cape Of Good Hope.
Comissioned to seek out Christian kingdoms and to secure Portugal access to the great markets
in the East,he rounded the Cape in early 1498, reached East Africa in April and Calicut India,in May.
Printer Bradbury and Wilkinson London