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Storing Their Crops in the Public

Many of the islands produce an abundance of fruits. These are gathered twice a year, carried home in canoes, and stored in low and roomy granaries, built of stones and earth and thickly roofed with palm branches and a kind of soft earth.

To keep the contents better, the granaries are usually erected near a mountain or in the shade of a river bank, so as to be sheltered from the direct rays of the sun. There the Indians store everything they wish to preserve, and there they go for supplies whenever they need anything--no one fears being cheated. Indeed, it would be good if among Christians there were as little greed to torment men's minds and hearts.

Monday, 15-May-95 14:17:42 PDT