84 Description of the Island of Bourbon, &c. [1671 
to bread, if they are cook’d in an oven or on a brazier. 
There is not more than one crop made in the year. 
Water Arums or Carayb Cabbage. These roots are as 
large as those above. They are good when cook’d in an 
oven. 
Ouvys mennes or Patates. These roots grow of different 
sizes, as long as Horse-Radishes. It grows from the size 
of the arm to that of the fingers. They are very good 
& have the taste of sweet chestnuts. Several crops are 
obtained yearly without replanting. 
All these roots are replanted by pieces which are cut 
from them or from small roots, except the Patates , which 
are planted from the wood & the leaves which they put 
forth above the ground. 
Some small roots also grow named Oumimes, which are 
excellent in soup & to fricassee. 
Sugar Canes grow here very good & abundantly ; & 
they could establish sugar-mills. They use these Canes 
to make the drink which they call Cane Wine. This juice 
of the Cane is fairly good & much resembles cider. 
They make here a quantity of Tobacco which is toler¬ 
ably good. 
Indigo grows of itself, but they do not cultivate it at all. 
They could as well establish Indigo dye-works, from which 
they would derive great profit. 
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