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Workers preparing cakes from manioc root in the tropics, with decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.
Wellcome Collection

Workers preparing cakes from manioc root in the tropics, with decorative border. Engraving, c. 1777.

1777

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: The negroes of Kachao preparing ye maniac-root a. scraping the root 2. rasping 3. sifting 4. pressing 5. making the maniac root into cakes engraved for Middleton's complete system of geography

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