The planters, an ignorant and indolent race, used every measure to degenerate and discredit this innovation, and in some cases destroyed the plantations of the cassava by pouring boiling water on the root.
Their food was bruised or boiled maize, or bread made of cassava root, their clothing a single piece of linen.
The cassava was immune from either of these casualties and was the usual article of food for the Negroes.
The staple food of the entire Upper Congo is a preparation of the root of the cassava plant, steeped and boiled, and made up into loaves or puddings of varying weight.
Another small village, Bomenga, stands on the other side of the Government houses; the plantation enveloping both villages, and occupying their old cassava fields and gardens, which are now planted with coffee trees.
Others grind cassava or maize on the metate, and bake tortillas.
A well-known article of food is the Carib bread, a sort of white hard biscuit made from cassava or mandioc roots, which are skinned, washed, and grated on a board set with sharp stones.
Naglagutum mig balanghuy paggíra, We ate nothing but cassava during the war.
Ang balanghuy nga gataw pait ug makahílu, The cassavaroot that grows out of the ground is bitter and poisonous.
Ang balanghuy makalibri sa gútum, Cassava can save you from starvation.
Ilain ang dyábang tayubúngun, Set aside the cassava to be made into starch.
Ang balanghuy laming itugnà sa mantíkà, Cassava tastes good if you dip it into pork fat.
Gitunúlan ang buksiadur ug tualya sa íyang bakgráwun, The manager gave the boxer a towel.
Dúnay báhin nga binisayà ang Príman, The Freeman has a Visayan section.
Among these were bread from the cassava root, fish, water in earthen jars, and the seeds of spices.
He sailed again, storing his boats with cassava bread and calabashes of water.
On the southern coast of Cuba, Columbus was obliged to supply them with cassava bread.
The women are required to bring a certain amount of kwanga—native cassava bread—to Leopoldville within a stated period of time.
The food was exhausted when the safari had been ten days on the road, but they had no difficulty in purchasing muhindi or cassava at the villages.
They wandered through the streets of Antigua begging for food, and once-wealthy cavaliers of proudest lineage might have been seen bartering their rich ornaments and vestments for a few mouthfuls of cassava bread.
The Indians, now conducting the Spaniards to their houses, set before them a banquet of cassava bread, fish, roots, and fruits of various kinds.
The only things they had to give in return were parrots and balls of cotton-yarn, besides cassava cakes, formed from the flour of a root called yuca, which they cultivated in their fields.
Fermented cassava is here the favourite beverage; the wine of the palm-tree, which is used on the Orinoco, being almost unknown on the coast.
My wife showed me a cask of ortolans she had preserved in butter, and a quantity of loaves of cassava bread, carefully prepared.
The day passed in these employments; and as we had lived only on potatoes, cassava bread, and milk for this day, we determined to go off next morning in pursuit of game to recruit our larder.
Of this root they make in the West Indies a sort of bread, called cassava bread.
We had milk in abundance, smoked meat, and fish, the preserved ortolans, and cassava cakes.
It can be driven off by roasting, and then the starch is used in the form of cassava bread.
The cassava cakes sent to Europe are composed almost entirely of starch, along with a few fibres of the ligneous matter.
In this state of rough meal it is fit for making the cassava cakes.
From the dry cassava meal cakes may be prepared by sprinkling it with as much cold water as to moisten it to the proper point, and then proceeding as above.
It is principally from the starch of the bitter cassava that tapioca is prepared by elutriation and granulating on hot plates.
The two varieties of the Cassava afford a very superior fecula, which is imported under the name of Brazilian arrowroot.
They stole cassava as we went along, but this could scarcely be prevented.
In passing a field of cassava I picked the pods of a plant called Malumbi, which climbs up the cassava bushes; at the root it has a number of tubers with eyes, exactly like the potato.
A hot fountain in the country of Nsama is often used to boil cassava and maize.
Next day we crossed the Vuna, a strong torrent, which, has a hot fountain close by the ford, in which maize and cassava may be boiled.
A large one in Nsama's country is used in the same way, maize and cassava being tied to a string and thrown in to be cooked: some natives believe that earthquakes are connected with its violent ebullitions.
Very heavy crops of maize and sorghum are raised, and the cassava bushes are seven feet in height.
Cassava is cultivated on ridges along all the streets in the town, which give it a somewhat regular and neat appearance.
When the rains set in, the women repair to these clearings, heavily laden with baskets full ofcassava sticks to be used as cuttings.
Again, the staple vegetable food of the Indians of British Guiana is cassava bread, made from the roots of the manioc or cassava plant, which the Indians cultivate in clearings of the forest.
At last in the ninth or tenth month, when the seeds appearing on the straggling branches of the cassava plants announce that the roots are ripe, the women cut down the plants and dig up the roots, not all at once, but as they are required.
These roots they afterwards peel, scrape, and bake into cassava bread.
On the economic importance of the manioc or cassavaplant in the life of the South American Indians, see further E.
The plantain trees and the cassava grew in the midst of branches of the trees that had been felled and burned afterwards.
The place was entirely deserted, for all the people had gone into the forest,--the men to cut trees for new plantations, and the women to attend to the crops that had been planted and bring back bunches of plantain or cassava roots.
Then the food supply was at the best only live cattle, which they had to kill for themselves, cassava bread, and a few roots such as yams.
With the men engaged in the struggle, only the women and children were left to cultivate enough cassava to keep body and soul together.
Thanks to careful regulations made by the Admiral, governing the intercourse between the Spaniards and the natives ashore, friendly relations were soon established, and the crews were supplied with cassava bread and fruit in abundance.
The canoes were provisioned with water, cassava bread, and fish; and they departed on this enterprise some time in August 1503.
They gave him some cassava bread and boiled fish, which he ate voraciously, and soon after left the hut.
You must bring your own cassava bread along with you, hunt in the forest for your meat and make the night's shelter for yourself.
They have to grate the cassava before it is pressed preparatory to baking; and those Indians who are too far in the wilds to procure graters from the white men make use of a flat piece of wood studded with sharp stones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cassava" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
