The inside of the other root is white, its form and size that of a cob of maize when stripped.

All these kinds have a pulp without fibres, loose, soft, and pleasant to the taste.

These roots are bread made without trouble, there being nothing to do but to take them out of the earth, and eat them, roast or boiled.

They are very good cooked in pots.

Our people ate a great deal; and, being of a pleasant taste and satisfying, they left off the ship's biscuit for them.