These roots last so long without getting bad, that on reaching Acapulco those that were left were quite good.
[* The Kumara, or sweet potato, and yams.] Their meat consists of a great quantity of tame pigs, some reddish, others black, white, or speckled.

We saw tusks 11/4 _palmos_ in length, and a porker was killed weighing 200 lbs.

The natives roast them on hearths, wrapped up in plantain leaves.

It is a clean way, which gives the meat a good colour, and none of the substance is lost.
There are many fowls like those of Europe.

They use capons.