It is held meritorious to plant them, which, they say, he that does, shall dy within a short while after, and go to Heaven: But the oldest men onely that are nearest death in the course of Nature, do plant them, and none else; the younger sort desiring to live a little longer in this World before they go to the other.
CHAP.

V.
Of their Roots, Plants, Herbs, Flowers.
[Roots for Food.] Some of these are for Food, and some for Medicine.

I begin with their Roots, which with the Jacks before mentioned, being many, and generally bearing well, are a great help towards the sustenance of this People.

These by the Chingulays by a general name are called Alloes, by the Portugals and us Inyames.

They are of divers and sundry sorts, some they plant, and some grow wild; those that grow wild in the Woods are as good, onely they are more scarce and grow deeper, and so more difficult to be plucked up.