(^30) . 
or ground-nuts, roc ts of^ water-Lillics^ 
Chtf-nuts , atid divers forts of Berries. 
They beat their Corn to powder and put it 
up into]?ag6, which they niake ufe of when 
liormic weather or the like will not fufter 
thenn to look out for their food. Pompims 
and wztct^MelloMs too they have good ftorcj 
they have prodigious flomachs, devouring 
a cruel deal, meet voragoes , never giving 
over eating as long as they have it, between 
meals fpending their time in lleep till the 
i^ext ketclefull is boiled, when all is gone 
they latisfie thcmfelves with a fmall quanti- 
ty of the meal, making it fcrve as the fru- 
gal bit amongft the old BritainSy which 
taken to the raountenance of a Bean would 
fatisiie both jhirft and hunger. If ihcy have 
none of thiy, as fometimeS( it falleth out 
( being a veiy carekfs people not providing 
againft the ftorms of want and tcmpeft of 
neccffiry ) they make ufe of Sir Francis 
Dral^e^'s remedy for hungerjgo to flecp. 
They live long^evg^i tp an hundred years 
of age, if they be not cut off by their Chil- 
dren, war, and thephgue, which together 
with rhe fm-idl pox hath taken away abun- 
dance of them, Fi>^)^ tcckcns up bur 300 
Difeafcs in and about man, latter writers 
Six' rhoufand, 2^6 belonging to the 
eyes* There are not fo mmy Difeafes raign- 
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