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Continued from Page 14 bochi shinishi, etc. It is odd and bean crops served for
that on neither of the other nourishment, the peanut-
There are numbers of dif- islands, Curacao or Bonaire, crops to buy clothes, shoes,
ferent native kinds, as for is bean-growing so produc- and other necessities, and
instance: Janchikok, Jaes tive and varied as on Aruba to pay off debts.
prinses, karanxu, bonofees, and mainly attributed to
marins, yenye, wowo-pre- the Native American heri- The work did not proceed
to, bonchi corra, wandu, tage and traditions. Maize without plan, it was given
serious thought before-
hand how the cunucu
could best be divided into
lots suitable for planting the
various species. Everything
was duly weighed: this soil
is good for maize, the low
lot carries off the water well
and should be planted with
pindas, the corner there is
for beans, etc.

However, no too optimis-
tic view should be taken of
Aruban agricultures. In 1827
commander Simon Plats
reported “the condition
of the holdings planted by
the residents is still the same
as twenty five years ago.”
Real plantations, with the
exception of Fontein, did
5-Native Family harvest of maish rabo, not exist.q
plantation in Noord, Aruba 4-“Maish” native Aruban corn “Zae mays” art by Etnia Nativa