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treat him with what they have, as ftewed or baked hens, 
capons, hard eggs boiled or roafted, which they prefs flat with 
pepper and lair, wine, brandy, ^c. They have generally the 
bell bread, and every thing elle of the kind they can get 5 they 
put anife, and two or three other forts of leeds Jnto their 
bread 5 one fort of which is black, and angular, and taltes 
almoft like carrot-leeds, and which Mr. ^ones had fcen fome- 
times ufed in bread in Spain : They eiteem honey a whole- 
lome breakfall, and reckon that the moll delicious, which is in 
the comb with the young bees therein, before they come out 
of their cafes, and whilll they look milk-white; oi" thefe 
Mr. ^ofies had often eat, but they feemed infipid to the palate, 
and fomerimes he found they gave him the heart-burn: In 
Siife^ he had a prefent made him, by a friend, of a bag of 
honey, as what is greatly elleemed, and what they prefent to 
the men of greatell note amongfl them 3 and he told Mr. Jones 
that he mull eat a little of this every morning to the quantity 
of a walnut; it was thick like Venice treacle, and full of fmall 
feeds; it always made him fleepy, but he found himfelf well, 
and in very good plight of body, after taking it; the {^t^^ 
were about the bignefs of mu Hard- feed ; and according to the 
defcription he had of them, and the effefls he found by eating 
them m the honey, they mull be a large fort of poppy-feed; 
the honey, wherewith the feeds were mixed, was of that fort, 
which in Safe they call Izucanee, or Origanum^ on which the 
bees feed. Cufctis or Cuskfoo is the principal difh amongil 
them, as the Olla is in Spain ; it is made of the flour of 
wheat, and in defe£l of that, of barley, millet, Indian corn, ^c. 
They Ihake fome flour into an unglazed earthen pan, made 
on purpole, after firll fprinkiing a little water on the bottom 
of the pan, then they work it with both their hands, turn- 
ing them backwards and forwards in order to grain ir, till 
it refemble Eafi-Indian SagOj they Hew their fle/h in earthen 
pots clofe covered, and put the Cuskfoo into a earthen cullender, 
which they call Caskaf^ and this into the mouth of the por, fb 
that all the lleam arifing from the meat, is imbibed by the 
Cuskfoo, whereby it fwells and becomes fit to be eaten ; whea 
it is enough, they put the Cuskfoo out into a difh, and heap- 
ing it up, thev make a place for the meat to lie in, then they 
p,ut a good deal of fpices, as gmger, pepper, faffron, c5^r. 
upon it; this difli is fer on a mat upon the ground, about 
which four men may eaflly hf, tho' Mr. Jones has feen fix or 
more about one dilh; they lit with their buttocks upon the 
calves 
