DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 131 
the “fésoles, as the Spaniards call them, of which there, are 
many kinds in the [West] Indias.” These ésoles, he says (lib. 
vii, c. 18) ‘are called by Pliny fagivoles: in Aragon we call them 
judias, and the seeds of those of Spain and of this country are 
properly the same.” The natives of Hispaniola raise these 
fésoles, but they are much more abundant on the main land, 
especially in New Spain and Nicaragua. “I have, in the 
Jacques Cartier, the discoverer of the St. Lawrence, on his 
first voyage, 1534, found that, the Indians near the mouth of 
that river on the Bay of Gaspé had abundance of maize, and 
had “ beans (febues) which they name Sahu,” or (as spelled in 
the vocabulary printed with his Discours du Voyage) Sahe.* 
The Brf Recit of his second voyage, 1535-6, mentions the use 
of corn and beans by the Indians of the St. Lawrence—“ bled 
Jebues & poix, desquels ilz ont assez” (f. 24). 
Father Sagard in his History of Canada and in the account 
of his journey to the country of the Hurons, 1625, mentions the 
* The langua i dialect of the Huron-Iroquois 
group, and on alla tes sie coud dex tae ouch it) in the Mohawk osahe-ta 
‘fésoles” of Bruyas (17th century) and the Onondaga ousahéta and hésaheta ‘ poix, 
féve” (Shea’s Onondaga Dictionary). 
