Pêro Vaz de Caminha

Pêro or Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500; ; also spelled Pedro Vaz de Caminha)|language=Portuguese|quote=Pero (ou Pêro, antes da aplicação do Acordo Ortográfico de 1990) (...) Pero é variante arcaica de Pedro e ocorria sobretudo como forma proclítica, antes de um patronímico|trans-quote=Pero (or Pêro, before the application of the Orthographic Agreement of 1990) (...) Pero is an archaic variant of Pedro and mainly occurred as a proclitic form, before a patronymic}}}} was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet (''Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha'', dated 1 May 1500). He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year. Provided by Wikipedia