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| | Biography / Brazil / Pedro Álvares Cabral |
 | | He was the third son of Fernao Cabral, Governor of Beira and Belmonte, and Isabel de Gouvea, and married Isabel de Castro, the daughter of the distinguished Fernando de Noronha. |
 | | Cabral resumed his voyage on 3 May; by the end of the month the fleet approached the Cape of Good Hope, where it was struck by a storm in which four vessels, including that of Bartolomeu Diaz, were lost. |
 | | Cabral started the return voyage on 16 January, 1501, and arrived at Lisbon on 31 July, or, as it is sometimes given, on 23 June. |
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