“scelus est jugulare Falernum,
Et dare Campano toxica sæva mero.”
[106] This is the sweet potato, introduced into Europe before the common potato.
[107] For an interesting account of this, vid., Dr., Charnock’s Verba Nominalia.
[108] Beajus, which in Malay signifies a wild man.
[109] Roggewein’s Voyage Round the World.
[110] According to Kotzebue, old women chew, as in the South American chica—let us hope this cannot be correct—and little girls spit on it to thin the paste. Kotzebue’s New Voyage Round the World, vol. ii., p. 170.
[111] From the old French Pallir, to become vapid, lose spirit. Washy stuff.
[112] See second part of Westminster Drollery, 1672.
[113] General Monk’s receipt is given in the Harleian Miscellany, i., 524. London, 1744.