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• vtfhichthey lay foaking five days in Water, they make Meal, which the fortu* 

 guefe call Farina frefca, but the Americans, Vipeba. Moreover, Mandihoka fcrves 

 them to make Bread, which they bake over the Fire ; arid mix d with Water, 

 Pepper, and the Flour Nhambi, makes an excellent Pudding, by them call'd 

 JMingaude Carima, no lefs pleafing to the tafte than wholfom Food : and with 

 Orange.Flour, Water, and Sugar, it makes that excellent Julep Ttpioca. The 

 Powder of Mandthoha put into a Wound, cures very fpeedily. It is very plea- 

 fant to fee the Jmericans eat this Bread ; for they tofs it by handfuls at a pretty 

 diftance from their Mouthes without letting fall the leaft Crum. Laftly, it 

 requires great art and trouble to make the Mandihoka fit for Bread : firft they 

 muft peel off the Shell, then put into a Mill turn'd by two Indians it falls, 

 being Ground, into a fquare Trough. The Juice proceeding from it is mortal, 

 if eaten when raw, but wholforri if boil'd : the Meal they put in a Prefs, and 

 when all the moifture is drawn from it, they ftrow it in an Oven to dry. But 

 the wild Mandihoka, by thofe that live on the Sea-flhore call'd Cuacu Mandttba, 

 and up in the Countvey, Ctquacuct4rerma, differs both in flbape and goodnefs 

 from the firft. 



But to return to our matter : Arias coming to an Anchor in the River Daria, 

 was cheerfully received by Nunne^ his firft Bufinefs which he undertook was 

 the building of three Forts, to fecure the Paffages to the South Sea - to which 

 purpofe Joannes Aiora received the Command over four hundred Workmen. 

 Moreover, Arias took great diilike in the Place call'd Maria 4ntiqua> which the 

 Spaniards were forc'd by ncccffity firft to Plant in : it lay in a deep Valley be- 

 tween hiah Mountains, to that it not oncly wanted the benefit oftherifing and 

 letting of the Sun, but when in or near the Meridian, it fhin'd down upon 

 them, and fcorch'd all their Plants, and the tepifi'd Morally Grounds about 

 the fame infected the Air, and the Water which they took up to wafti their 

 Houfes, immediately bred Frogs, the River Dana overflowed the Grounds 

 with his muddy Water three Leagues diftance from the Sea . the P.affage thither 



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