actually existed. Another three decades elapsed before they be- gan to exploit the colony systemati- cally. In 1532, the first town was established at Siio Vicente. Cattle and sugar cane were introduced, and a sugar mill was built.
the 1570s, when Pero de Magal- hiies de Gandavo toured Brazil's sugar-producing provinces, he counted some 60 mills and estimated the colo- ny's sugar exports at one million pounds a year. His detailed chronicle is translated as The Histories of Brazil (1922; Longwood,...