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Tristão da Cunha
Tristão da Cunha was a Portuguese navigator and naval commander. In 1506 he led a large fleet to India, sighting on the way the South Atlantic islands later named Tristan da Cunha after him. With Afonso de Albuquerque he sacked Barawa on the Somali coast and took Socotra, and in 1514 he led King Manuel I's famous embassy to Pope Leo X, which brought the elephant Hanno to Rome.
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