So Far As I Could Understand, They Have
Likewise A Kind Of Millet, Or Grain, As Large As Pease, Like The Maize
Which Grows In Brasil, Which Serves Them Instead Of Bread.
Of this they
have great abundance, and it is called kapaige in their language.
They
have also a kind of damsin plumbs, which they call famesta. They
possess likewise, figs, nuts, apples, and other fruits, and beans which
they call sahu; their name for nuts is cahehya. When we shewed them
any thing which they had not or were unacquainted with, they used to
shake their heads, saying nohda! nohda! implying their ignorance or
want of that article. Of those things which they had, they explained to
us by signs how they grew, and in what manner they used to dress them
for food. They use no salt, and are very great thieves, stealing every
thing they could lay their hands on.
On the 24th of July, we made a great cross thirty feet high, which we
erected on a point at the entrance of our harbour, on which we hung up a
shield with three flowers de luce; and inscribed the cross with this
motto, Vive le roy de France. When this was finished in presence of
all the natives, we all knelt down before the cross, holding up our
hands to heaven, and praising God. We then endeavoured to explain to
these savages by means of signs, that all our salvation depended only on
him who dwelleth in the heavens; at which they shewed much admiration,
looking at one another, and then at the cross.
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