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terraced gardens. Nowadays most cocaine comes from Java, 

 which has an extensive cultivation of the coca plant, whose 

 original habitat was Peru and Bolivia. The word coca is from 

 the Quechua Indian language of those countries. 



Some of the crops of minor importance, either first culti- 

 vated or first utilized by the Indians, now grown in various 

 parts of the world are: 



allspice 



anil (indigo; one species 



native to America) 

 arracacha 

 arrowroot 

 Barbadoes cherry 

 Brazil nut 

 butternut 

 cascara sagrada 

 chayote 

 cherimoya 

 chinkapin 

 copaiba 



copal (certain varieties) 

 cranberries (only certain 



varieties) 

 custard apple 

 fustic 



gourds (certain varieties) 

 guava 

 guayule 

 henequen 

 hickory 



ipecac 



logwood 



mamey apple 



maypop (passion-flower 



fruit) 

 oca 



papaya 



Paraguay tea (mate tea) 

 pawpaw 

 pecans 



persimmon (one species) 

 Peruvian balsam 

 quinoa 

 sapote 

 sarsaparilla 

 sassafras 

 sisal hemp 

 sour-sop 

 star apple 

 stramonium 

 sweet-sop (sugar apple) 

 tolu 

 yam (one variety) 



Here endeth the tale of the crops that the modern world 

 acquired from the ancient Indians. 



INDEX TO PRODUCTS 



Alligator pear, 11 

 Allspice, 15 

 Anil, 15 

 Arracacha, 15 

 Arrowroot, 15 

 Artichoke, Jerusalem, 

 Avocado, 2, 11 

 Barbadoes cherry, 15 

 Batata, 2, 3 

 Beans, 8 

 Brazil nut, 15 

 Butternut, 15 

 Cacao, 9 



Cascara sagrada, 15 

 Cashew nuts, 14 

 Cassava, 12 



Cayenne pepper, 14 

 Chayote, 15 

 Cherimoya, 15 

 Chewing gum, 13 

 Chicle, 13 

 11 Chile pepper, 14 



Chinkapin, 15 

 Chocolate, 9 

 Cinchona, 12 

 Coca, 14, 15 

 Cocaine, 14 

 Cocoa, 9 

 Copaiba, 15 

 Copal, 2, 15 

 Corn, 4 

 Cotton, 5 



