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Allegorical representations of beverages in the forms of an Asian man holding a cup of tea, an Arabic man holding a cup of coffee, and a native American man holding a cup of chocolate. Includes feathered headdress and garments, leg ornaments, bow,…

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But the art of making sugar, it is said, never was practiced by the aborigines of the West Indian islands, until they were settled by Europeans; nor by the Mexicans, or Peruvians

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The Spanish Mackerel are in Shape and Colour like those in Europe, but a hard long and more, and nine or ten in ches about. These are esteem’d excellent Meat.

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Wheaten bread is quite banish'd from those parts, for the inhabitants eat none but cakes made of Maiz or Indian wheat, which is also given to the horses and mules instead of barely: They first wet, and then grind it on a stone as the do cacao. The…

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Wheaten bread is quite banish'd from those parts, for the inhabitants eat none but cakes made of Maiz or Indian wheat, which is also given to the horses and mules instead of barely: They first wet, and then grind it on a stone as the do cacao. The…

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The cacao-nuts are esteemed by theMexicans as anodyne; and used, eaten raw, to assuage pains of the bowels.

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The Cockrecoes are of the colour of a partridge, but sometimes less, and their Legs longer: The delight creeks and watery Places, and are remarkable for their calling and answering one another Morning and Evening. They are esteemed delicious Food.

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They have seldom more than one Set-meal, but they eat Plantains and other Fruits, raw or roasted, almost all Day long. They have also the Flour of Indian Wheat, or of the Cassavi Root, whith which they sometimes make a kind of Gruel, or else make it…

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They go out a hunting and shooting frequently in Companies a Week or Fortnight for Food, every Man carrying with him his Bow and Arrows, or a Gun, if he can procure one, a Spear, a Hatchet, and a long Knife. Each Man also takes a Dog or two with him…

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The camote is another root, extremely common in that country, of which there are three species, one white, one yellow, and another purple. When boiled they taste well, especially those of Queretaro, which are justly prized over all the kingdom.

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I should believe it less of the Indians than any other People, since it is agreed that they lived for the most part on Fruits, Roots and Herbs, and very little in Flesh of any kind.

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Every thing they eat is high-season’d with Pepper, and Salt too, if they can get it; but, as a Salt is scarce in many Places, they are content with streaking their Meat upon a Lump of Salt, before they put it into their Mouths.

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There is scarce any Flesh, Fish, or Fowl, but what the Natives of Mexico eat either stew’d or barbecued, that is, broil’d over a wood Grate, or upon the Coals; and I don’t perceive they use either Knives, Forks, or Spoons, in eating; buy take up the…

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That though the meat we fed on was as fair to look on, as in Spain, yet the substance and nourishment in it came far short of it, by reason of the pasture, which is drier and hath not the change of springs which the pastures of Europe have, but is…

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Their principal food is Either Indian Corn, parch’d and ground into Flour, and made into thin Cakes; Fruit, particularly Plantains, Roots, and sometimes Fish, wild Hogs, Deer, or other Venisons.

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The Chachalaca the flesh of which is very good eating, is about the size of a common fowl. The upper part of the body is of a brown color, the under part whitish, and the bill and feet blueish. It is inconceivable what a noise these birds make in the…

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The wood adjoining was full of game, where, for my diversion, I kill'd some Chiachilaccas. This bird is of an as-colour, has a long tail, is little less than a hen, and as well tasted.

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Nothing is more universally drank in the City of Mexico itself, and una such Towns as are under the Dominion of the Spaniards, than Chocolate. Gemelli informs us, that to every Pound of the Cocoa-nut the Europeans add a Pound of Sugar, and an Ounce…

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As to Chocolate, this serves both for Meat and Drink, in almost every Province of Mexico, both among civiliz’d and barbarous Indians, if they can get it; but this is so much us’d by the Spaniards, and so much of it exported to Europe, that is pretty…

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At different intervals during the time of dinner, there entered certain Indians, hump-backed, very deformed, and ugly, who played tricks of buffoonery, and others who they said were jesters. There was also a company of singers and dancers, who…

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The Spaniards taught by the Mexicans, and convinced by their own Experience, that this Drink, as rustick as it appeared to them, nevertheless yielded very wholesome Nourishment

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They go out hunting and shooting frequently in Companies a Week or Fortnight for Food, every Man carrying with him his Bow and Arrows, or a Gun, if he can procure one, a Spear, a Hatchet, and a long Knife. Each Man also takes a Dog or two with him to…

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Their principal food is Either Indian Corn, parch’d and ground into Flour, and made into thin Cakes; Fruit, particularly Plantains, Roots, and sometimes Fish, wild Hogs, Deer, or other Venisons.

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The chief pulse of the Mexicans, was the French bean, of which the species are more numerous and more varied than those of maize. The largest species is the Ayacotli, which is the size of a common bean, and comes from a beautiful red flower; but the…

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Before night, I kill'd a wild cock, which the Indians call a Pheasant; 'tis bigger than a capon, has a long tail, and wings, a tuft on the head, and black feathers, but the breast black and white, and the neck bare, like a turky-cock; the flesh of it…

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I should believe it less of the Indians than any other People, since it is agreed that they lived for the most part on Fruits, Roots and Herbs, and very little in Flesh of any kind.

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When it is poured out into an Earth-dish or Calabash, and being set upon a Wooden-block, that serves them for a Table, they sit round it on the lesser Blocks, every one having a Calabash of Water standing by him on the Ground, into which they…

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Their principal food is Either Indian Corn, parch’d and ground into Flour, and made into thin Cakes; Fruit, particularly Plantains, Roots, and sometimes Fish, wild Hogs, Deer, or other Venisons.

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"The fruits which are original in Mexico are the pine-apple, plums, dates, and a great variety of others. There are also many ohters that are not original in the country, viz. water-melons, apples, peaches, quinces, apricots, perars, pomegranates,…

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They go out a hunting and shooting frequently in Companies a Week or Fortnight for Food, every Man carrying with him his Bow and Arrows, or a Gun, if he can procure one, a Spear, a Hatchet, and a long Knife. Each Man also takes a Dog or two with him…

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They have also the Flour of Indian Wheat, or of the Cassavi Root, whith which they sometimes make a kind of Gruel, or else make it into Paste, and bake as hard as a Biscuit; and either the Flour and Bisquit made of it, they have always by them,…

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I should believe it less of the Indians than any other People, since it is agreed that they lived for the most part on Fruits, Roots and Herbs, and very little in Flesh of any kind.

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What they intend to preserve, they dry upon a wooden Grate (which is call’d Barbecue) making Fire of Wood-coals under it; this they renew for three or four Days, or a Week, till the Meat is as dry as a Chip, and the Pieces will keep a great while.…

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There’s another Serpent which does no hurt, call’d Iquanna, which has a terrible Look, with a bag under his Chin, a glittering Comb on its Head, a long Tail, and sharp Bones on its Back, which stand like a Saw. It lays 50 Eggs at a Time, as big as…

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I should believe it less of the Indians than any other People, since it is agreed that they lived for the most part on Fruits, Roots and Herbs, and very little in Flesh of any kind.

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An Indian of this place gave me a sort of wild fruit to eat (call'd Shiociaccos, that is, Sharp) red and white, as long as a finger, and of te taste of a cherry. Within it there were little black seeds like pepper. The tree that bears it is usually…

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As to Chocolate, this serves both for Meat and Drink, in almost every Province of Mexico, both among civiliz’d and barbarous Indians, if they can get it; but this is so much us’d by the Spaniards, and so much of it exported to Europe, that is pretty…

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The Cassavi Root, already mention’d, of which the Indians make Bread, is first boiled and squeez’d, then dried, ground and made into Paste and Biscuit; and tho’ this kind of Bread is very wholesome, when it is thus cook’d, yet if eaten before it is…

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They hang up their Hammocks between the Trees, and have scarce any other Covering, but a Plantain-leaf, only they make a Fire near their Hammocks; they begin their Hunting again at Sun-rise the next Morning; their Game, the Pecary and Warree, are not…

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the great Lake of Mexico, which nourishes a Lizard, good to eat, whose Femlae has the Nature, and Inconveniences of a Woman.

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They have a great Variety of Liquors. The readiest and most ordinary Drink is Water, with the Flower of Indian Corn infused in it, and drunk off presently. This Dampier says, the Natives call Posole, and the English Poor Soul, because it just serves…

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Wheaten bread is quite banish'd from those parts, for the inhabitants eat none but cakes made of Maiz or Indian wheat, which is also given to the horses and mules instead of barely: They first wet, and then grind it on a stone as the do cacao. The…

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Their principal food is Either Indian Corn, parch’d and ground into Flour, and made into thin Cakes; Fruit, particularly Plantains, Roots, and sometimes Fish, wild Hogs, Deer, or other Venisons.

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[…] they were constrained to take their route through pathless deserts, which afforded for their nourishment only wild seeds, roots, and the green stems of Indian corn.

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Captain Swan did not think it convenient to go to the Mines, but made haste aboard with the Maiz which he tooke there, to the quantity of about 30 or 90 Bushels; and which to us, in the scarcity we were in of the Provisions, as at the time more…

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Their Provisions were Maize or Indian Corn, several Sorts of Roots, and Cocoa Nuts, of which Chocolate is made.

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As to the Manatee, Dampier, in his first Volume, describes it in the following manner: He says, it is about the bigness of a Horse, and ten or twelve Foot long: That the Mouth of it is like a Cow's; and it has a great thick Lips: The Eyes no bigger…

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La recolte de la vanilla se fait au Mexique dans les mois de novembre & décembre.

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one sort taken out of the Canes of Maiz, which is the Indian Wheat; another sort out of Sugar-Canes. They have also certain Trees, which furnish them with that sort of Honey of which they make their Wine or Metheglin.

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If the celebrated author of the Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americans be still living, this account of our poisonous and injurious honey (should my memoir fall into his hands) would afford him some entertainment. […] in America there is as good…

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