Races of Maize in Cuba (1957) / Chapter Skim
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THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS OF CUBA 7 varieties of corn. Loven ( 31 )
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8 RACES OF MAIZE Oviedo, however, is probably correct in attaching considerable importance to "viruelas" ( H istoria, Lib.
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HISTORY OF CUBAN CORN 9 about dawn on November 1, 1492. Convinced that Cuba was the mainland of Asia, he sent an embassy up the Cacoyuguin valley to Holguin to pay his respects to the Emperor of China.
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10 RACES OF MAIZE ambassadors, who were not botanists, reported a cultivated plant which looked to them like millet or sorghum, which, of course, are Old World plants not known in the West Indies before the European discovery. The ambiguity is cleared up in Las Casas' H istoria de las Indias, where the bishop expands the account given in his abstract of Columbus' Journal.
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