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Vasco da Gama - Part 5: Legacy of an epic voyage
As the squadron rounded back into familiar waters, the passage home felt like a reckoning. On September tenth, 1499, the remaining vessels cut through the Tagus estuary and into the wharves of Lisbon. They did not arrive as a single armada but as a handful of vessels marked by endurance: sails patched, ropes spliced and frayed, hulls darkened with salt and sea growth. The decks held the detritus of a long passage.
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