Note {1} — Chapter XXXI
Henry Yule translation
Note 1.—“Le fait si bien estuier que il dure bien trois ans ou quatre” (Pauthier): “si bien estudier” (G. T.). The word may be estiver (It. stivare), to stow, but I half suspect it should be estuver in the sense of “kiln-dry,” though both the Geog. Latin and the Crusca render it gubernare.[1] Lecomte says: “Rice is always stored in the public granaries for three or four years in advance. It keeps long if care be taken to air it and stir it about; and although not so good to the taste or look as new rice, it is said to be more wholesome.”