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They officially became the first men to set foot on the heavily forested island, naming it Ilha da Madeira, “Island of Timber. ”
They found plenty of water pouring down from the mountains, and more timber than anyone knew what to do with.
As a source of shipbuilding timber in a key location, the island was a kingpin in the far flung commercial empire, and became the Republic’s first formally constituted overseas colony.
Settler , from 1788, was roughly synonymous with colonist: I say roughly because W.H. Breton, in 1833, distinguishes between settlers the farmers only and colonists the whole of the free inhabitants, though this may be an academic distinction as John Dunmore Lang in the next year remarks that spirit of irreconcilable enmity to standing timber... almost uniformly evinced by all Australian colonists.
A piner is and was a timbergetter who specialized in Huon pine, a conifer producing an attractive and highly valued timber, once used for boatbuilding but now protected and employed mainly in the manufacture of touristy artifacts.