In vol 3 of his History of Brazil (London, 1819) Robert Southey mentioned a whaling company in Brazil.
p. 553: “Carvalho also chartered an exclusive Company for the Whale Whaling Fishery; it formed establishments upon the coast of Bahia and
p. 554 the Rio; but its head quarters were in the island of S. Catalina. This Company obtained a contract for supplying Brazil with salt,. a most injurious monopoly, which had previously been held by an individual, to whom for the yearly sum of sixty contos Government had sold the privilege of exacting from the Brazilians what price he pleased, for one of the prime necessaries of life. Pernambuco and Paraiba, Maranham and Para, were exempted from the monopoly, because the trade there belonged to their separate Companies, and those countries were provided by nature.
