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but to facilitate the baking. By t^ie 

 inattention of the Slaves, this juice, 

 when expreffed, is frequently drank by 

 the Cheep, hogs, and poultry, on the 

 Plantations, which ever proves fatal to 

 them : yet the animals thus poifoned, 

 are always eaten by the inhabitants. 

 Yet this poifon, fatal as it is in its crude 

 ftate, is rendered perfe&ly innocent and 

 wholefome by fire. Thus the meal, 

 by baking, is rendered innoxious and 

 nutritious; and the poifonous juice of 

 the root, when expreffed, is, by the 

 Indians and White Inhabitants, boiied 

 with venifon, pepper, &c. and thus 

 affords an agreeable falubrious foup. 

 The beft antidotes that have hitherto 

 been difcovered againft the poifonous 

 etTedts of the CalTava, in its crude ftate, 

 are red pepper and rum, taken imme- 

 diately. The Sweet Caffava differs from 

 this only by being innocent, and hav- 

 ing 



