The J^aturall and Moral! 



or any other kinde of graine which they vfc in Europe 

 o make bread withall : infteede whereof they vfed 

 other kindcs of graincs and rootes , amongft the 

 which Mays holds the firft place 5 and withreafon, in 

 Castile they call it Indian wheat , and in Italic they call 

 it Turkey graine. And even as wheat is the moft com* 

 mon graine for the vfeof man, in the regions of the 

 old world, which we Europe, Afia, and Affrikc : So in 

 - the new found worlde, the moft common graine is 

 Ways, the which is found almoft in all the kingdomes 

 of the Weft Indies, zsatPcrtt, new Spain, in the new 

 kingdomeof Grai9ado t mGautima!la,in Chillc, andvpon 

 the maine land. I do not finde that in old time, in the 

 Hands ofBarbvwtt, as Cuba S. Dominique, lawaique, 

 and S. lean , that they vfed Mays : at this day they vfe 

 ttiuchr^andc^^/, whereofwewill prefentlyin- 

 treate. I do not thinke that this Mays is any thing infe- 

 riour to our wheat, in ftrength nor fubftance , but it is 

 more hote and grofle , and engenders more bloud, 

 whercvpon they that have not bin accuftomed there- 

 vnto,if they eat too much,ihey fwell and becomefcab- 

 bed. It growes vpon canes or rcedes; every one bearcs 

 one or two grapes or branches, to the which the graine 

 is faftened^and although the graine be bigge, yet finde 

 they great (lore thereof, (basin fome cluftersl have 

 toldfeven hundred graines. They mU ft plant it with 

 the hand one by one , and not very thicke ; it defires a 

 hote and moift ground, and growes in great aboun- 

 dance in many places of the Indies. It is not ftrange in 

 thole countries to gather 300. Fanegues or meafures for 

 one fb wen. There is difference of Mays as there is of 

 wheat,one is great and very nourishing, another frnall 

 anddrie, which they call Moroche 5 the grccne leaves 



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