These people are good and simple. You can stamp on them any design that you wish to give them. And Our Lord gave them good bodies and good faces, and I think that it was his plan that we arrive here.
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| Birth: | 1450 |
| Death: | 15th December, 1500 |
| Nationality: | Portuguese |
| Profession: | Secretary, Writer |
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Pêro Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500, as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet. He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.
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