Besides these _Bananes_, there is a Fruit call'd _Banane-Figs_; but the Plants that produce them are very little different: The Figs are much less than the _Bananes_, being but four or five Inches long. The Fig is more delicious, but the _Banane_ is thought to be more wholesome, and the Pulp more solid. They roast them upon a Grid-Iron, or bake them in an Oven, they eat them with Sugar and the Juice of an Orange. The _Banane_ done in a Stew-Pan in its own Juice, with Sugar and a little Cinnamon, is excellent. REMARK VI. _Manioc_ is a Shrub very crooked, and full of Knots, its Wood is tender and brittle, and the Branches are easily broke off into Slips: There are several and different Colours, some more forward and fruitful than others. Commonly they are pluck'd up in a Year or thereabouts; and there is found at every one, several plump Roots, without any sensible Fibres, more or less thick, according to the Kind and the Goodness of the Soil. These Roots are wash'd in a good deal of Water, to free them from the Earth; and after they are scraped with a Knife like wild Turnips, they _grate_ them; that is to say, they rub them hard with great Copper Graters, which the _French_ call _Grages_, just as they do Quinces to get out the Juice. This grated _Manioc_ is put in the Press in Sacks made of coarse Hemp, or Rushes, to get out the superfluous Moisture, which is not only unwholesome, but poisonous. This, thus press'd, they take from the Sacks, and pass it through a coarse Sieve called _Hibichet_; they afterwards bake it two several ways, to make what they call _Cassave_, or Meal of _Manioc_. In the first place, when they would make the _Cassave_, they spread the sifted _Manioc_ upon a Plate of Iron over a clear Fire, which they tapping down with the Ball of their Hands, make a broad Cake about half an Inch thick, and two Feet in diameter; and when it is baked on one side, they turn it on the other: and if they would keep it any time, they dry it in the Sun. In the second place, when they would make what they call the Meal, they put the _Manioc_, grated, pressed, and sifted, as before, upon a great Copper Plate four Feet in diameter, with a Brim five or six Inches high, and placed upon a Brick Furnace: They stir it continually with a wooden _Spatula_, that it may not stick and be baked all alike. This Meal resembles Bread grosly crumbled, and may be kept a long while in a dry Place. The Natives do not trouble themselves to make the Meal; they only eat _Cassave_, which they bake every day, because, when it is hot, it is more agreeable and palatable. If they leave the expressed Juice of _Manioc_ to settle, it lets fall a _Faecula_ to the bottom, called _Moussache_, which they afterwards dry in the Sun: it is as white as Snow, of which they make very good Cakes, called in those Parts, _Craquelins_.