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hardly (Ueped in milkc, inhonnyofcancs, or in wine, 

 for that thefc liquors cannot pierce it , as it doth bread 

 made of wheate. Of thisOww there is one kind more 

 delicate than any other, which is that they make of the 

 flower called Xauxau, which theydomuchcfteemein 

 thofepartes. For my pane, Icfteeme more a morfell 

 of bread,how hard & black foe.ver. It is a ftrange thing 

 that the iuice or water that commeth from this roote 

 when they ftraine it, which makes the Cacwi is a dead 

 ly poifon , and killes any that drinkes thereof : but the 

 fubfhnce that rcmaineth, is a very wholefome bread 

 andnourifhment, as we have (aide. There is another 

 kinde ofYttca, which they call fweet, and hath not this 

 poyfonintheiuyce : this is eaten in the roote boyled 

 or roafled, and is good rccate . Cacavi will keepe long, 

 and therefore they carry it to fca in fteede of bifcuit. 

 The place where they vfe-moft of this bread, is at the I- 

 lands of Eaylo e utnte > which are S.Domimcke, Cuba, Port 

 Ricco, lamaiqucy andfome others thereabouts- for that 

 thefoile of thefe Hands will neither beare wheate, nor 

 3/ays, for whenas they fowe wheate, it comes vp wetf, 

 andisprefcntlygreene, butfovneqtiaHy,asthey can 

 not gather it ; for of the feede fowen , at one inftant, 

 fome isfpindled/omeisin the eare, and Ibmedoth but 

 biid,one is great and an other little , one is in the <*raf!e 

 and another in the graine; and although they have car 

 ried labourers thitherto fee if there were any tillage or 

 Art to be vfed , yet could they finde no remedy for the 

 quality of the earth . They carry mcale from New 

 Spaixe or the Canaries, which is fo moid, that hardly 

 can 'they make any profitable bread, or of good tafte. 

 The wafer cakes wherewith they fay MafTc", did bend 

 Hke to wetpaper^ by reafonof the extreame humiditk 



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