Before many years had passed, Madeira became famous for its corn and honey, its sugar cane,[206] and, above all, its wine. The Malvoisie[207] grape, introduced from Crete, throve excellently, and at last produced the Madeira of commerce. When Cadamosto visited the island, in 1455, he found vine culture already advanced, and become the staple industry of the colonists, who exported red and white wine annually to Europe, and found a market for the vine staves as bows. [Footnote 206: Introduced from Sicily.] [Footnote 207: "Malmsey," or "Malvasie," from Monemvasia or Malvasia in the Morea, the original seat of its culture.] As early as 1430[208] the Infant issued a charter, regulating the settlement of Madeira; herein Ayres Ferreira (whose children, "Adam and Eve," were the first Europeans born in the island) is mentioned as a companion of Zarco. An early tradition, which has not yet been substantiated, also maintained that Prince Henry instituted family registers for his colonists in this group.[209] In 1433 (September 26th), King Duarte, in a charter from Cintra, granted the islands of Madeira, Porto Santo, and the Desertas to the Infant Henry; and in 1434 (October 26th), the spiritualities of the same were bestowed on the Order of Christ.[210] In December, 1452, a contract was made at Albufeira between the Infant D. Henry and Diego de Teive, one of his "esquires," for the construction of a water-mill to aid in the manufacture of cane-sugar,[211] the third part of the produce to go to the Prince. Finally, in 1455, on Cadamosto's visit, the island possessed four settlements and 800 inhabitants, and this prosperity seems to have steadily continued. The charter of 1460[212] has been already noticed. [Footnote 208: See Cordeiro, _Historia Insulana_, Bk. III, ch. XV.] [Footnote 209: The late Count de Rilvas communicated this fact to Mr. R. H. Major.] [Footnote 210: _Documentos ... do Torre do Tombo_, p. 2.] [Footnote 211: See Gaspar Fructuoso, _Saudades da terra_, ed. Azevedo (1873), pp. 65, 113, 665; Martins, _Os Filhos de D. João_, pp. 80 and _n._ 1, 258 and _n._ 2.] [Footnote 212: This was issued on September 18th, 1460, bestowing the ecclesiastical revenues of Porto Santo and Madeira on the Order of Christ, the temporalities on King Affonso V. and his successors. It must be taken in connection with the Charters of June 7th, 1454, December 28th, 1458, and September 15th, 1448, all relating to the trade of Guinea, and the first two conferring special privileges on the Order of Christ, or revising such privileges already granted; see the _Collection_ of Pedro Alvarez, Part III, fols. 17-18; Major, _Prince Henry_, 303.]