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 During our chase saw many plants and trees new to me, but we scampered over the ground excited by the game we had started that my companions thought

of nought else but the chase; Yet there was one plant which I got some information about, the Persimon; it is a senu? tree and yields an orange coloured fruit about the size of a very small crab apple. When the juice of the plant is fermented with a small quantity of sweet-potatoe a very pleasant beverage results, called by the settlers "Persimon Beer." From the Sweet-Potatoe another drink is made, by baking them, then mashing them up with water, & after fermentation has taken place it gets the name of "potatoe beer." There is a drink made in this country from Indian corn, like the Chicha of the Peruvians.

The Lavias? Sassafras groves in great abundance, a sorly? tea is made from it & lately a frenchman  X