Cabral, Pedro Alvares
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
CABRAL, PEDRO ALVARES pe droo lva r sh k bral , c.1467 c.1520, Portuguese navigator. A friend of Vasco da Gama, in 1500 he was sent out by Manuel I as head of a fleet destined for India. Bartolomeu Dias was one of his officers. Cabral...