¶ The temperature and vertues.
Turky wheat doth nourish far lesse than either wheat, rie, barley, or otes. The bread which is made thereof is meanly white, without bran: it is hard and dry as Bisket is, and hath in it no clam∣minesse at all; for which cause it is of hard digestion, and yeeldeth to the body little or no nou∣rishment; it slowly descendeth, and bindeth the belly, as that doth which is made of Mill or Pa∣nick. We haue as yet no certaine proofe or experience concerning the vertues of this kinde of Corne; although the barbarous Indians, which know no better, are constrained to make a vertue of necessitie, and thinke it a good food: whereas we may easily iudge, that it nourisheth but little, and is of hard and euill digestion, a more conuenient food for swine than for men.