ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1550. 

 The planting The maner of the growth of sugar is in this sort, a 

 and growth of g OOC J ground giveth foorth fruit nine times in 18 yere : 

 sugar canes. ^^ j g tQ ga ^ ^ £ rst j g ca Q e j Pl an t a> which is layd 



along in a furrow, so that the water of a sluce may 

 come over every roote being covered with earth : this 

 root bringeth foorth sundry canes, and so consequently 

 all the rest. It groweth two yeeres before the yeelding 

 of profit, and not sixe moneths, as Andrew Thevet the 

 French man writeth. 

 The making Then are they cut even with the ground, and the tops 

 of sugar. gj. } eaves called Coholia cut off, and the canes bound 



into bundels like faggots, and so are caried to the sugar 

 house called Ingenio, where they are ground in a mill, 

 and the juyce thereof conveyed by a conduct to a great 

 vessell made for the purpose, where it is boiled till it 

 waxe thicke, and then is it put into a fornace of earthen 

 pots of the molde of a sugar loafe, and then is it carried 

 to another house, called a purging house where it is 

 placed to purge the blacknesse with a certaine clay that 

 is layd thereon. Of the remainder in the cauldron is 

 made a second sort called Escumas, and of the purging 

 liquor that droppeth from the white sugar is made a 

 third sort, and the remainder is called Panela or Netas, 

 the refuse of all the purging is called Remiel or Malasses : 

 and thereof is made another sort called Refinado. 



When this first fruit is in this sort gathered, called 

 Planta, then the Cane-field where it grew is burned over 

 with sugar straw to the stumps of the first canes, and 

 being husbanded, watred and trimmed, at the end of 

 other two yeeres it yeeldeth the second fruit called Zoca. 

 The third fruit is called Tertia Zoca, the fourth Quarta 

 Zoca, and so orderly the rest, til age causeth the olde 

 Canes to be planted againe. 

 Wine. This Hand hath singular good wine, especially in the 



towne of Telde, and sundry sorts of good fruits, as 

 Batatas, Mellons, Peares, Apples, Orenges, Limons, 

 Pomgranats, Figs, Peaches of divers sorts, and many 

 other fruits : but especially the Plantano which groweth 



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