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"Oh no, Chanito, there will be dessert to-day," replied l'Encuerado. "Perhaps as good as the cook would provide at home; but, at any rate, it is sweet enough. Look at it!" The Indian girl brought a calabash full of water, and a cone of black sugar, weighing about half a pound. "What is that?" cried Lucien. "Panela," answered the Indian girl. "Poor man's sugar," interposed Sumichrast.
The new canoe was light and roomy, and we were able to rig up a low shelter under which I could lie; I was still sick. At noon we passed the mouth of a big river, the Rio Branco, coming in from the left; this was about in latitude 9 degrees 38 minutes. Soon afterward we came to the first serious rapids, the Panela.
For two full hours we lay there, listening to the buyers bartering with the boatmen for their load of maize, frijol and panela until daylight, when we gave orders to unload. We had planned to go from Tampico to Chiapas, and from there to Yucatan, where we were to finish our work for the season.
It is the general custom, while travelling in this country, for the inhabitants to bring you a panela, or large bowl of hot water, every night, when you are going to bed, for your feet, and it is usual to have a black man in attendance, for the purpose of examining the feet, and extracting the jiggers with a needle, at which operation they are very expert. Monday, 11.
"I can well believe it," said the child; "but it contains all that nasty scum which we saw." "That makes it the nicer," said l'Encuerado; "it has a richer flavor." And taking a morsel of the panela, he soaked it in the water in the calabash and sucked it. When Lucien saw that we, too, imitated the Indian, he soon made up his mind to do likewise, the sweet taste overcoming his repugnance.
We were now able to calculate the load which our "empty" canoe, hired at thirty pesos, in order to take us quickly through to Tampico, was carrying: 120 dozen cakes of panela, of 2 lbs 2,880 lbs. 8 boxes chapapote, of 125 lbs 1,000 lbs. 6 sacks of beans, of 100 lbs 600 lbs. Total 4,480 lbs. In other words, we had been crowded and delayed by more than two tons of cargo.
Of the remainder in the cauldron is made a second sort called Escumas, and of the purging liquor that droppeth from the white sugar is made a third sort, and the remainder is called Panela or Netas, the refuse of all the purging is called Remiel or Malasses: and thereof is made another sort called Refinado.
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