There are several varieties of yucca, one of which being dearer and more agreeable, is reserved for making the bread of the caciques.  Other varieties are set aside for the nobles, and certain others for the common people.  When the juice has all run off, the pulp is spread out and cooked on slabs of earthenware made for the purpose, just as our people do cheese.  This sort of bread is the most used and is called cazabi.  It is said there are also several kinds of agoes and potatoes, and the natives use these more as vegetables than for breadmaking, just as we do radishes, turnips, mushrooms, and other similar foods.  Most of all do the natives like potatoes, which indeed are preferable to mushrooms, because of their flavour and softness, particularly when of a superior quality.  We have now spoken enough of roots, so let us come to another kind of bread.  The natives have another kind of grain similar to millet, save that the kernels are larger.  When there is a shortage of yucca, they grind it into flour by mashing it between stones; the bread made from this is coarser.  This grain is sown three times a year, since the fertility of the soil corresponds to the evenness of the seasons.  I have already spoken of this in preceding places.  When the Spaniards first arrived, all these roots and grains and maize, as well as various other kinds of fruit trees were cultivated.

In Caramaira and Saturma there are such broad, straight roads that one might think they had been drawn with a lead pencil.  Among this people are found cups with handles, jugs, jars, long platters, and plates of earthenware, as well as amphoras of different colours for keeping water fresh.

When ordered to tender obedience to the King of Castile and to embrace our religion, or get out, the Indians replied with flights of poisoned arrows.  The Spaniards captured some of them, whom they immediately set at liberty after giving them some clothing.  Some others they took on board the ships and displayed our grandeur before them, so that they might tell their compatriots; after which they released them, hoping thus to win their friendship.  Gold has been proven to exist in all the rivers.  Here and there in the native houses fresh meat of deer and wild boar was found; a food which they eat with great pleasure.  These natives also keep numbers of birds which they rear either for food or for their pleasure.  The climate is healthy; I may cite as a proof the fact that the Spaniards slept at night on the river banks and in the open air, without anybody suffering from headache or pains.

The Spaniards likewise found huge balls of spun cotton and bunches of divers coloured feathers from which headdresses, similar to those of our cuirassiers, or mantles of state are made.  These are elegancies among the natives.  There was also a large number of bows and arrows.