da Gama

[ duh gam-uh; Portuguese duh gah-muh ]

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noun

Da Gama

/ də ˈɡɑːmə /

No conversation of any length can be carried on without a reference to Camoens and to Vasco da Gama.

Coello need not have feared: Da Gama knew his brave colleague too well to imagine that he was really thinking of retreat.

At Da Gama's order all were marshalled on deck, and stood, sullen and powerless, before the captain.

So it was, and Vasco da Gama had established for himself a name imperishable on the page of history.

Vasco da Gama also sent the chair in which the King had sat as a present, greatly to his delight.

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