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Portuguese Explorers
First voyage of Vasco da Gama.
The route followed in Vasco da Gama's first voyage (1497–1499). Gama's squadron left Portugal in 1497, rounded the Cape and continued along the coast of East Africa. They reached Calicut in western India in May 1498.
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