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other inferior kinds, as well as other sorts of grain, which the 
natives frequently sow on account of their requiring less 
water. What is commonly called paddy is a very inferior 
grain. Corocan is a small seed, like our mustard, which they 
beat in a mortar, and make into cakes. Tanna is a very 
prolific grain, and hardly requires any cultivation. It re- 
quires first to be parched by the fire, and then beaten in a 
mortar, in order to be unliusked. When boiled, it swells even 
more than rice ; and though rather dry and insipid, it is 
accounted sufficiently wholesome* 
