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Vasco da Gama - Part 2: Setting sail into uncharted waters
On the eighth of July, in the year 1497, the fleet finally set sail. The last ropes slipped away, and the hulls moved into the open sea. The Atlantic unfolded before them, vast and unyielding. Onboard, the men felt the shift from land to ocean.
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