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much. This is their Choice Drink ; for ordinarily 

 they drink plain Water or Mi/law. 

 Mijlawoi Mi/law is a Drink made of ripe Plantains : There 

 Plantains, is of two Sons, one made of Plantains frefh-ga- 

 ther'd, the other of dry ones. The former they 

 roaft in its Cod, which peeling off, they put the 

 Plantain into a Calabafh of Water, and mafh it 

 with their Hands, till 'tis all diiTolved ; and then 

 they drink it up with the Water. The other is made 

 of Cakes or Lumps of Plantain dried ; for the 

 Plantains when ripe and gather'd, will not keep, 

 but quickly grow rotten if left in the Cod. To 

 preferve them therefore, they make a Mafs of the 

 Pulp of a great many of the ripe Plantains, which 

 they dry with a gentle Fire upon a Barbecue or 

 Grate of Sticks, made like a Gridiron. This 

 Lump they keep for ufe, breaking off a piece of it 

 when they pleafe, and mafhing it in Water for 

 Miflazv. They carry a Lump of Plantain with 

 them for this End when ever they travel ; efpeci- 

 ally into Places where they can't hope to get ripe 

 Plantains, tho' they prefer the dried ones. Green 

 and half ripe ones they eat inftead of Bread with 

 Flefh ; but they boil them firft. They do the fame 

 with their Yams and Potato's, which they fome- 

 times roaft ; as alfo the Caflava-root : And their 

 Plantations are never without fome or other of 

 thefe, and ufually in good Plenty \ efpecially the 

 old Plantations. 



I faw no Herbs or Sallading in their Plantations, 

 neither did I ever fee them eat any kind of Herbs. 

 But they never forget to have in their Plantations 

 fome of their beloved Pepper - ? and they ufually 

 are pretty well ftor'd with Pine- Apples, which 

 they have very plentiful, and eat of them every 

 Day, 



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