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MAIZE. 



outward coat of wood has not any peculiarity. 

 The leaves are small, and never cover the 

 branches luxuriantly. * 



The Tatajuba, or Fustic — This is a spe- 

 cies of wood producing a yellow dye, which is 

 well known in England. It is of spontaneous: 

 growth. A demand has lately been made for 

 it, and destruction has followed wherever the 

 plant can be met with. 



The Feijam, or Kidney Bean, is planted in 

 April and May with the mandioc. It is much 

 used in the neighbourhood of the coast by the 

 free part of the population, but is not produced 

 in sufficient quantities to form a common food 

 for the negroes. When it is cooked with the 

 juice of the pulp of the coco-nut it makes a 

 most excellent dish. In the cotton-districts it 

 forms one of the chief articles of the negroes' 

 food. 



Milho, or Maize, is planted with mandioc, 

 and sometimes in the cane-fields; but as the 

 best crop is obtained by planting it with the 

 mandioc in January, few persons sow it at any 

 other time. In the inland districts it is sown 



* Labat is much enraged, in his work of the Voyage du 

 Chevalier des Marchais a Cayenne, &c. at the idea of the 

 Portuguese monopolizing the trade in Brazil wood, by per- 

 suading all the world that the only true wood came from 

 Pernambuco, or Fernambourg, as he calls it. He imagine? 

 that the Brazil is the same as the logwood. 



