Identifier: threeyoungcruso00murr (find matches)
Title: Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Murrill, William A.
Subjects: Natural history--West Indies.
Publisher: New York city,: W. A. Murrill
Contributing Library: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries with support from LYRASIS and the Sloan Foundation

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R IX The Fields beyond the Garden It was now time to think of the more substantialfoods, and the boys eagerly sought the cultivatedfields to the east of the garden to see what theymight supply. A field of corn first attracted their attention, andit was a welcome sight. At first, they parched thegrains and ate them whole; then they tried crackingthem and boiling them into a coarse mush; and, fin-ally, they found that by soaking them in water theybecame soft and could easily be crushed betweenstones into a kind of meal, which was then made in-to little cakes. While the corn was green, they hadall the roasting-ears they wanted; and, of course,they saved seed and kept planting a little every fewweeks. Ill declare, a big patch of goober peas! ex-claimed William. I used to grow a few myself. Whats that? inquired Henry. I reckon youd call them peanuts, but I prefergoobers, William retorted. See how the littlestems curve and dive into the ground after the flow- The Fields Beyond the Garden $$
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Fig. 17. An Indian woman in Mexico selling corn cakes to people onthe train. 56 Three Young Crusoes er fades. We can keep some of them raw and roastsome—and we can make peanut candy! Henryhad never seen peanuts growing and he pulled up avine and examined it with much interest. I see now why they are called peanuts, he said,because the flowers and shells are like peas and themeat like nuts; but I cannot see why they are calledgoobers.

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