CHAP III.

Of their Corn, with their manner of Husbandry.

The Products and Commodities of the Country. Corn of divers
sorts. Rice. Growes in water. Their ingenuity in watering
their Corn-lands. Why they do not always sow the best kind of
Rice? They sow at different times, but reap together. Their
artificial Pooles, Alligators harbor in them. They sow Corn on
the mud. A sort of Rice that growes without water. The Seasons
of Seed-time and Harvest. A particular description of their
Husbandry. Their Plow. The convenience of these Plowes. Their
First plowing. Their Banks, and use of them. Their Second
plowing. How they prepare their Seed-Corn. And their Land
after it is plowed. Their manner of Sowing. How they manure
& order Young Corn. Their manner of reaping. They tread out
their Corn with Cattel. The Ceremonies they use when the Corn
is to be trodden. How they unhusk their Rice. Other sorts of
Corn among them. Coracan, Tanna, Moung, Omb.


CHAP. IV.

Of their Fruits and Trees.

Great Variety of Fruits and delicious. The best Fruits where
ever they grow reserved for the Kings use. Betel-Nuts, The
Trees, The Fruit, The Leaves, The Skins, and their use. The