Note 142-2 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS

This last part of this sentence should read, “and is cultivated with mames, kidney beans, other beans, this same panic [i.e., Indian corn], etc.” The corresponding passage in the Historie of Ferdinand Columbus reads, “and another grain like panic called by them mahiz of very excellent flavor cooked or roasted or pounded in porridge (polenta),” p. 87.