. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. in a juicy pulp of a pleasant flavor. It is usedfor ice-creams, sirups, and jellies. The low tree (Pharma-cosyce ?) yielding it grows on the Lower Amazons. Mandioca, or Cassava, the bread-root of the Amazons,yields farina and tapioca, and a liquor called Tucupi,or Aguardiente de beijii. There are four species: (1)The Mandioca proper {Maniot utilissima), of which thereare many varieties, among them Maicurii, the lowest, be-ing only four feet high, but producing the largest andbest roots—Itoqui, Tambaqui, Auirana, and Muciir
. The Andes and the Amazon :|bor across the continent of South America. in a juicy pulp of a pleasant flavor. It is usedfor ice-creams, sirups, and jellies. The low tree (Pharma-cosyce ?) yielding it grows on the Lower Amazons. Mandioca, or Cassava, the bread-root of the Amazons,yields farina and tapioca, and a liquor called Tucupi,or Aguardiente de beijii. There are four species: (1)The Mandioca proper {Maniot utilissima), of which thereare many varieties, among them Maicurii, the lowest, be-ing only four feet high, but producing the largest andbest roots—Itoqui, Tambaqui, Auirana, and Muciira. (2)Aypi {M. aij)i), or Sweet Mandioca, called Yuca Dulce on the Maranon, having oblong, juicy roots, becomingsweet after they are gathered. The chicha made from it The Mandioca Plant. 519 is called masato. (3) Macachera, or Macaslieira (Yucaof Pern ?), whose root is used as a potato, roasted or boiled.(4) Manicneira, a sweet Mandioca, different from Aypi,having a long, large root. Mandioca will produce in sixmonths after planting without cultivation. The root is. Mandioca. deprived of its poisonous juice in a curious strainer: along tube of woven fibre, containing the macerated root,is hung up, with a stone at the lower end, by which meansthe diameter is diminished and the juice squeezed is a large root, resembling a yam or potato, and 520 The Andes and the Amazons. used as such. There are four or five kinds at Santa-rem. Sweet - potatoes grow so luxuriantly at the Americancolony in Santarem that they have become a pest. Theyare inferior to those raised in the Middle United States. Sugae-cane and Soeghum have a luxuriant growth ev-ery where on the Amazons; but the cane seems better fit-ted to make rum than sugar. At San Regis, on the Mara-non, 18,000 gallons of cashaga are manufactured is imported. GuAYUsA (an Ilex related to the Paraguayan Mate)grows abundantly near the head of the Napo, and has beentransplanted to Santa Maria, on the Huallaga. The l
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