A trader and explorer, Jedediah Smith was the first American to enter California from the east and return from it using an overland route.

杰迪戴亚·史密斯是商人和探险家，他是第一个从东部进入加州并沿陆路返回的美国人。

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Columbus, an Italian explorer sailing under the Spanish flag, led four expeditions to the New World, but never accomplished his original goal — to find a western ocean route to Asia.

意大利探险家哥伦布受命西班牙国王，四次率领船队探索新世界，但从来没有完成他最初的目标，也就是找到一条向西通往亚洲的海上航线。

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But in Europe it is believed that the first person to use the Cape of Good Hope as a sea route was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, when he sailed from Europe to the East in 1497.

但是在欧洲人们认为第一个使用好望角，把其作为航海路线的人是葡萄牙探险家瓦斯科·达伽马。他是在1497年从欧洲开始航行到美国的东部地区。

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Scottish explorer Gordon Laing survived an attack by Tuareg nomads en route to Timbuktu, only to discover on arrival that its wealth had greatly diminished since its heyday.

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Certainly the island was a pristine paradise when Portuguese explorer Diogo Fernandes Pereira happened upon it in February of 1507, while pioneering a new route to the East Indies.

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