The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
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The Maluccians
Hate That Their Women Should Be Seen Of Strangers; But These Offer
Them Of High Courtesy, Yea, The Kings Themselves.
The people are of
goodly stature and warlike, well provided of swords and targets, with
daggers, all being of their own work, and most artificially done, both
in tempering their metal, as also in the form; whereof we bought
reasonable store.
They have an house in every village for their common
assembly; every day they meet twice, men, women, and children,
bringing with them such victuals as they think good, some fruits, some
rice boiled, some hens roasted, some /sagu/, having a table made three
foot from the ground, whereon they set their meat, that every person
sitting at the table may eat, one rejoicing in the company of another.
They boil their rice in an earthen pot, made in form of a sugar loaf,
being full of holes, as our pots which we water our gardens withal,
and it is open at the great end, wherein they get their rice dry,
without any moisture. In the mean time they have ready another great
earthen pot, as set fast in a furnace, boiling full of water,
whereinto they put their pot with rice, by such measure, that they
swelling become soft at the first, and by their swelling stopping the
holes of the pot, admit no more water to enter, but the more they are
boiled, the harder and more firm substance they become. So that in the
end they are a firm and good bread, of the which with oil, butter,
sugar, and other spices, they make divers sorts of meats very pleasant
of taste, and nourishing to nature.
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