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gular Diftance. In each of thefe Hillocks 

 they make a hole with their Fingers, and 

 throw in two or three Grains of Maiz as we 

 do Garden-beans - 0 covering it up with 

 Earth. The Seed time is about April 5 the 

 Harveft about September or October. They 

 pluck off the Ears of the Maiz with their 

 Hands, as is ufual alfo elfewhere : And 

 tho' I was not there in their Harveft-time, 

 yet I faw the Maiz in the preceeding Har- 

 veft laid up in the Husk in their Houfes. 

 Inftead of Threfbing, they rub of the 

 Maiz Grain. They- make no Bread of it, nor 

 Flower. Cakes, but ufe the Flower on many occafi- 

 ons 3 parching the Corn, and grinding 

 it between two Stones, as Chocolate 

 is made. One ufe they put the Flower to, 

 is to mixt it with Water in a Calabafh, and 

 fo drink it off $ which they do frequently - 

 when they Travel, and have not leifure to 

 get other Provisions. This mixture they call 

 Chichdh, which, I think, fignifies Maiz. 

 Com They make a Drink alio of their Maiz, 

 prink.' wljjch they call Chichah Co-p&h ; for Co-pah 

 fignifies Drink. Theyfteep in a Trough of 

 Water a quantity of Maiz bruifed, about 

 twenty or thirty Bufhels, if it be againft a 

 Feaft or Weddings letting it lie fo long till the 

 Water is impregnated with the Corn, and 

 begins to turn four. Then the Women, 

 ufually fome old Women, who have little 

 dfe to do, come together and chew Grains 



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