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Hsitory - A voyage
gone wrong
Departing on March 9th, 1500, 13 ships
and 1,200 men under Admiral Cabral set out to reach India by
skirting Africa in the footsteps of Vasco da Gama. Their voyage
somehow, through misnavigation or secret intention, ran them
into Brazil on April 22nd, 1500. Here, the first recorded interaction
between European and Amazonian took place. It was a very peaceful
meeting, with mutual joy upon discovery, a sort of calm before
the storm, as the distinctions of Amazonian and European ceased
to matter during the 10 days of Admiral Cabral's expedition around
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