One of the party made a short excursion to the west of the plain, and in about three miles reached the hills, which appeared very barren and scrubby; but after crossing the first ridge, the country was timbered with York and red gum and a large species of acacia, producing abundance of gum; the soil a red loam, producing some grass and abundance of the everlasting flowers and warran, or native yam.

De yam will grow, de cotton blow, We'll hab de rice an' corn: O, nebber you fear, if nebber you hear De driver blow his horn!" All the family, of all ages and colors, then joined in singing "The Star-spangled Banner"; and when Mr. King had shaken hands with them all, they adjourned to the breakfast-room, where refreshments were plentifully provided.

Every evening they arrived at a Yam or lodging, and once every week at a city.

When I found he was still obstinate, not knowing whether it was from sulkiness or insanity, I ordered a person to present him with a piece of fire in one hand, and a piece of yam in the other, and to tell me what effect this had upon him.

I learnt that he took the yam and began to eat it, but he threw the fire overboard."

With these, in open baskets, lay bright scarlet capsicums, green coconuts tinged with orange, great roots of yam {26b} and cush-cush, {26c} with strange pulse of various kinds and hues.

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These batatas are probably a different species from our potatoes, and may be what are called sweet potatoes in the West Indies; perhaps the igname cicorero is the West Indian yam.

There being no danger from the natives the crew were allowed as much liberty as possible, and a good supply of fish, a few pigeons and a small quantity of vegetables, in the shape of yam tops, cabbage palm, and wild plantains, had a very beneficial effect on their health.

A somewhat similar performance was gone through as the day before, but the significance of which could not be ascertained, and then suddenly all the people turned their backs on king and prince, who, Cook was afterwards informed, had had pieces of roast yam given them to eat.

[Footnote 1: Some have derived Itzamua from i, grandson by a son, used only by a female; zamal, morning, morrow, from zam, before, early, related to yam, first, whence also zamalzam, the dawn, the aurora; and ná, mother.

What you thought you heard that day in 1911, when I missed a six-inch putt, was only "Yam," which is a Thibetan expression meaning "How dreadfully unfortunate!"

Large plats of the onion, of cocoa, plantain, banana, yam, potatoe, and other tropic vegetables, were scattered all around within five or six miles of a plantation.

Large plats of the onion, of cocoa, plantain, banana, yam, potatoe, and other tropic vegetables, were scattered all around within five or six miles of a plantation.

Here the natives were celebrating the Yam feast, a sort of religious ceremony, to witness which Park got up into a Fetish tree, which is regarded by the natives with fear and dread.

Well, whutya think I yam, anyway?" "I woulda took a chanst.

It grows on the loose flooded alluvial margins of the rivers, and at one period of the year composes the chief sustenance of the natives, having the watery look and taste of the yam.

On de bit dem hol' dem full: Racin' ober pastur' lan', See dem comin' ebery man, Comin' fe de steamin' tea Ober hilly track an' lea. Hard-wuk'd donkey on de road Trottin' wid him ushal load, Hamper pack' wi' yam an' grain, Sour-sop, and Gub'nor cane.

Big an' little, great an' small, Afou yam is all de call; Sugar tup an' gill a quart, Yet de people hab de heart Wantin' brater top o' i', Want de sweatin' higgler fe Ram de pan an' pile

De norf wind tell it to de pines, De wild-duck to de sea, We tink it when de church-bell ring, We dream it in de dream, De rice-bird mean it when he sing, De eagle when he scream, De yam will grow, de cotton blow, We'll hab de rice and corn; Nebber you fear, if nebber you hear De driber blow his horn.

In Yam and Tutu a girl at puberty retires for a month to the forest, where no man nor even her own mother may look upon her.

I had ventured to suggest to Mr. - the possibility of ploughing some of the fields on the island, and his reply was that the whole land was too moist and too much interrupted with the huge masses of the Cypress yam roots, which would turn the share of any plough.

Mr. Brady took charge of the bartering, and drawing a number of lines upon the sandy beach, explained that when each was covered with a yam he would give an axe in return.

There was no fence, but the ground had been partially cleared, leaving the stumps of the smaller trees and shrubs as posts for the yam plants (a Dioscorea with broad heart-shaped leaves) to train themselves upon.

The staple article of food is the yam, which is produced here in great abundance, of large size, and excellent quality.

Here is a soil which, with proper cultivation, can produce rice, corn, cotton, tobacco, and indigo, and is admirably adapted to the culture of the ground-nut and sweet potato.

Cabbage and yams, a large sweet potato, coarser than the kind generally used by the whites and not so delicate in flavor, were also raised for the servants in liberal quantities.

To-day we first observed a very beautiful convolvulus, which we afterwards found to bear roots like a sweet potato, some of them more than a pound weight and well flavoured, forming a very important article of food to the natives.

In South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, the sweet potato is, to a considerable extent, substituted for corn during a part of the year.

Close at hand were the garden, the orchards and the horse lot; and behind them the sweet potato field, the watermelon patch and the forage plots of millet, sorghum and the like.

The culture and diseases of the sweet potato.

The culture and diseases of the sweet potato.

The cause of the quarrel was this: Tiki had had some of his pigs stolen by the natives of Waima, and he was seeking utu by robbing their sweet potato plantations, for which he was shot.

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The sweet potato is the article referred as potato by Shakespeare and other English writers, previous to the middle of the seventeenth century.

PREPARATION AND COOKING.What has been said in reference to the common potato, is generally applicable to the sweet potato; it may be prepared and cooked in nearly all the ways of the Irish potato.

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Fresh Fruit Oatmeal Vegetable Oyster Toast Graham Bread Toasted Wafers Corn Cake Baked Sweet Potato Stewed Fruit DINNER Vegetable Soup Baked Potato Stewed Beans Kornlet Chopped Beets Browned Rice Rye Gems Toasted Wafers Whole-Wheat Bread Stewed Fruit Orange Pudding

Stewed Fruit DINNER Cream Pea Soup Mashed Sweet Potato String Beans Pearl Wheat with Peaches and Cream Buns Cream Rolls Toasted Wafers Nuts THIRTY-SIXTH WEEK FIRST DAY BREAKFAST

Fresh Fruit Graham Mush Blackberry Toast Sliced Tomato Currant Puffs Cream Rolls Toasted Wafers Baked Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Sweet Potato Soup Steamed Potato Boiled Beets Stewed Lima Beans Rolled Wheat Buns Graham Puffs Toasted Wafers

White Celery Soup Baked Sweet Potato Mashed Peas Scalloped Tomatoes Pearl Wheat Whole-Wheat Bread Beaten Biscuit Graham Crackers

Green Corn Soup Stewed Lima Beans Mashed Sweet Potato Rice with Peaches Beaten Biscuit Currant Buns Stewed Fruit Pears

Fresh Fruit Rice Grape Toast Fruit Bread Beaten Biscuit Baked Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Tomato and Vermicelli Soup Mashed Sweet Potato Stewed Corn Boiled Wheat Fruit Bread Beaten Biscuits Stewed Fruit Farina Blancmange with Grape Sauce THIRTY-NINTH WEEK

Stewed Fruit DINNER Tomato and Vermicelli Soup Mashed Sweet Potato Green Corn Pulp Boiled Wheat Fruit Bread Beaten Biscuit Grape Tarts

Fresh Fruit Rolled Oats Lentil Toast Whole-Wheat Puffs Toasted Wafers Graham Bread Stewed Fruit DINNER Tomato and Macaroni Soup Baked Sweet Potato Stewed Celery Boiled Green Corn Rolled Rye Graham Bread Currant Puffs Sticks

Fresh Fruit Rolled Wheat with Baked Apples Gravy Toast Toasted Wafers Graham Bread Cream Rolls and Crab Apple Jelly Stewed Fruit DINNER Tomato and Macaroni Soup Baked Sweet Potato Stewed Celery Shelled Beans Pearl Barley with Raisins Graham Bread Corn Cake Toasted Wafers Stewed Fruit Tapioca Custard SABBATH BREAKFAST

DINNER Cream Barley Soup Mashed Sweet Potato Mashed Peas

SWEET POTATO PUDDING Take one quart of grated, raw sweet potatoes, one tablespoon leach of meat fat and chicken fat, one half pound of brown sugar, one-half pint of molasses, one and one-half pints of cold water, one saltspoon of salt and a little black pepper, grated orange peel, ginger, nutmeg and cinnamon to taste.

SWEET POTATO PIE Measure one cup of mashed, boiled sweet potatoes.

Growing fields of the sweet potato were sacred for obvious reasons, as were those who were working therein.