Sugar and the first ingenios of Hispaniola — the transfer, its price list and its ledger

Oviedo gives a chapter to who first made sugar in the Indies, credits a bachiller who brought the masters from the Canaries, then prints the testimony against his own award. The same pages give what a mill cost, the price of an arroba, and — as an operating requirement — the eighty to a hundred and twenty enslaved people each mill kept. Forty years on the crown's cosmographer counts thirty mills and twelve thousand enslaved.