o allotments. That to which he gave
the name of Santo Amaro adjoined Sao Vicente, the two towns being only
three leagues asunder. The other division lay much nearer to the line
between Parahyba and Pernambuco. He experienced considerable difficulty
in founding this second colony, from the strenuous opposition of a
neighbouring tribe, the Petiguares; at length he succeeded in clearing
his lands of them, but not long afterwards he perished by shipwreck.

Rio de Janeiro was not settled till a later period; and for a
considerable time the nearest captaincy to Santo Amaro, sailing along
the coast northwards, was that of Espirito Santo. It was founded by
Vasco Fernandes Coutinho, who having acquired a large fortune in India,
sank it in this scheme of colonization. He carried with him no less than
sixty fidalgos. They named their town by anticipation, Our Lady of the
Victory (Victoria); but it cost them some hard fighting with the
Goagnazes to justify the title.

Pedro de Campo Tourinho, a nobleman and excellent navigator, received a
grant of the adjoining captaincy of Porto Seguro. This, it will be
remembered, is the spot where Cabral first took possession of Brazil.
The Tupinoquins at first offered some opposition; but having made peace,
they observed it faithfully, notwithstanding that the oppression of the
Portuguese obliged them to forsake the country. Sugar-works were
established, and considerable quantities of the produce exported to the
mother country.

Jorge de Figueiredo, _Escrivam da Fazenda_, was the first donatory of
the captaincy Ilheos, 140 m. south of Bahia. His office preventing him
from taking possession in person, he deputed the task to Francisco
Romeiro, a Castilian. The Tupinoquins, the most tractable of the
Brazilian tribes, made peace with the settlers, and the colony was
founded without a struggle.

The coast from the Rio Sao Francisco to Bahia was granted to Francisco
Pereira Coutinho; the bay itself, with all its creeks, was afterwards
added to the grant. When Coutinho formed his establishment, where Villa
Velha now stands, he found a noble Portuguese living in the
neighbourhood who, having been shipwrecked, had, by means of his
fire-arms, raised himself to the rank of chief among the natives. He was
surrounded by a patriarchal establishment of wives and children; and to
him most of the distinguished families of Bahia still trace their
lineage. The regard entertained by the natives for Caramuru (s