DeCandolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants. 251 
of others with which they were at first ner The 
Admiral sent a eee: toa een 4 cacique. ‘The officer who 
Oordows The lands are planted with nptes which are little 
shoots (ramillos) that are slaaitad; and at the bottom of each 
grow roots like zanahorias, whi use for bread,” and 
(id., p- 242). Again, atives “brought bread made of 
niames, which they reall Aja” (id, 251); and, Dec. 26, they gave 
the Admiral a “collation, of two or He kinds of Ajes, and of 
rors bread that they call cazavi,” ete. 263). After this the 
name of niames gives place to ajes og ages). On the second 
voyage of Columbus, the natives, near Isabella (in St. Do- 
nine) brought great quantities of “ages fae are like rapes: 
(nabos) very excellent eating,” and “this the natives of 
Caribi (the Caribbean a0s, Be eall nabi, anit ‘the Indians [of 
iii, 
This pine of names, in the first decade of dns in 
America, was — and unavoidable. he ign name, 
niame, igname, was applied without much disirinmination to 
roots cultivat ed by Pe. natives it the islands and the mainland 
* Tt is to this passage that Humboldt refers, in Nouv. Esp., 2d ed., il, an 
(cited iy M, DeCuiolie p. 63), - evidence that tthe name /gname was heard o 
the continent of America, by Vespucci, in 1497; pt; ca will bs be begees. Tanpucth 
(or his copyist) does not say that this name was used b 
