'Vasco De Gama', (c1460s-1524), 1830. Vasco da Gama (c1460s-1524) Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea, which opened sea routes for an age of global imperialism. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. [Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830]

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