João Ramalho was either a degredado or a shipwrecked sailor (uncertain which), who was left in southern Brazil c.
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On account of his rudimentary knowledge of Hebrew and Arabic, Nunes was the first to go ashore in Calicut, India, and it is Nunes (not Gama) who uttered the famous phrase "We came to seek Christians and spices".
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In 1533, the 'Bachelor' famously led a raid to sack and destroy the Portuguese colony of São Vicente.