Cevadilla fat Hordeola* cauflicurn Aoiericaoum, 
The Indiancaufticke tree. 
that the juyee of this roote groweth on the Vpland its 
the Continent, is not any whit hurtfuil, as it is faid, 
although it be hurtfuil in the Iflands: & this bread was 
ufed by all the people of America, from Florida to Pe¬ 
ru, and about to the Straights of Magetlane, above a 
thoufand miles,yet had they MaUMo,thit is,Indian 
or Turky Wheatepn moll of thofe places.Thc Names 
hereof are very various,according to the Country,for 
it is called Manibot by Come,Hiurca,fJiucca,or Iucca,according to others, and (.azavi. as they call the bread 
which the Spaniards doe write Cacavi, that is Ca/avi, which is the mod general! name through all places.’ VVe 
have not heard that the Indians uled either herbe or roote to any Phyficall remedy. 
Like hereunto is that which is called Hetich by the Indians, whofe leaves are round like Mallowes, and the , 
roote like unto great long Turncps, being of two forts, the one being yellowifh the other whicc, when they are 
boyled or baked into bread, and is pi mted from peecescut off from the roote. Some would reterre this to the Mallow" 
Vinpum of Tbeophrafim, which Pliny cklleth Oetum, leafed p®. 
__-____ ’ ” - eatoes, 
CenadiHd Sore Hordeola* eonflicnm 
Chap, LXXXIV. 
Cevadillafive Hordeolum caufiicum Amcricanum. 
The Indian Caudicke Barley. 
Onaritu faith that among other rare feedes 
and plants,that were fent him from Hijpa- 
niola, he had this alfo, which they there cal- 
led Cevadilla , that is to fay 11 'rdeo- 
turn, Small Barley, from the likencfle of 
the fpiked head of feed unto an eare of Barley but lefler, 
having the leed enclofed in the like chaffie huskes, but is 
like unto Linfeed.yet greater, whofe property is more a d- 
mirable then ever was heard of in any other herbe or feed, 
for neither Sublimatum nor fire it felfe can efftfl more in 
a cautery to be ufed,therefore it will kill the wormes that 
breed in foule ulcers, and clenfeth thofe that arc. foule 
anddircking, bycading fomeof the. pquther tnerejhto, 
yet with difcretion,according to the greatnelfe and foule- 
nefle of the fore, andufing thofe remedies that are fiefor 
it, but if it chance to worke too eagerly or fharpcl/they 
ufe to dippe tents in Rofewater, or Plantaine water, and 
put them into the ulcers, it is ufed in the like manner, for 
the fores of beades : this feed is hot in the fourth degree, 
and beyond it,if there were any further degree to be reko- 
ned, 
Millo is a graine or kind of Corne like Millet, ufedboth 
for bread and drinke in the Kingdome of Sato in guinea, 
reiiiembred in the Sea voyages of f'andirbaguc, in Clufii 
his Curt pofteriorrs. 
