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Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509-1583) was a Portuguese adventurer, explorer and writer. Among his achievements are the introduction of the gun to Japan in 1543.
He left us with such an incredible acount of his journeys (called The Pilgrimage - Peregrinação in Portuguese, published only in 1614), that for a long time he was not believed.
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