Ship San Gabriel sailed from Portugal
wit brave navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral
strayed around
the cape of Boa Esperança
moved away from the coast of africa
so much until seeing the island of vera cruz,
he saw it was bigger land,
he called the land of the holy cross,
when he landed he saw that it was
even bigger... so immense
that could only be a country...
Later time he called it Brazil...!
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