Note 311 — Commentaries of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, governor of the Rio de la Plata.
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The “reeds” of the text must certainly be bamboos, and the larva or grub found in them answers to that of the Calandra palmarum, a species of weevil which is still cooked and eaten in the way here described.
[312] Sierra is a chain of mountains.