The drinks are made, of course, at home.

The farinaceous fruits are sold to the confectioners, who take also a portion of the milk and all the meat supplied by the pastures.

Many choice fruits grow on shrubs, ranging from the size of a large black currant tree to that of the smallest gooseberry bush.

Vines growing along the ground bear clustering nuts, whose kernels are sometimes as hard as that of a cocoa-nut, sometimes almost as soft as butter.

The latter with the juicy fruits, are preserved if necessary for a whole year in storehouses dug in the ground and lined with concrete, in which, by chemical means, a temperature a little above the freezing-point is steadily maintained at very trivial cost.