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by boiling, which affords the natives an article of 
traffic. When the bitter is extracted, the natives 
dry them hard in the sun, and they will then keep 
two or three years, and are reckoned great dainties by 
the negroes. 
The Mavondre root is a kind of rice of the most 
agreeable taste ; ten or twelve roots, about the size of 
a hen’s egg, are generally produced from one plant: 
they have the flavour of the chesnut, but are superior, 
and lighter on the stomach : their outside skin is thin 
and bitter, and they are planted whole. 
The Ouvi-maleve differs little from the Soabei and 
Ouvi-hare. 
Besides these, there are several sorts of Ouvis, 
which grow wild in the woods, and are resorted to 
only on occasions of scarcity, proceeding from war or 
other casualties: these are the Ouvi-in-lasso, Ouvi- 
randre, Ouvi-dambou, Fanghitz, Yahala, Fandre, 
Hompouc, with many others. 
The Ouvi-in-lassos have roots of the length and 
thickness of a man’s arm, and they grow in the woods 
near the coasts. 
Ouvi-dambous are like vine-roots, and produce 
blackberries with the flavour of musk : their shoots 
die every year; the leaves are unpleasant, and hard 
of digestion, and are never eaten but in times of great 
scarcity. 
Fanghitz are roots of extraordinary size, being 
sometimes found as large as a man’s body. They 
are covered with a thin rind, of a reddish colour, are 
