ABSTRACT
Frampton’s ([1577] 1925) translation, the Spaniard Nicholas Monardes says that a merchant “shewed to mee a greate Roote, and other little rootes, and he asked mee what rootes they were, I aunswered that they were Rootes of the China.” He added, “the Indians be healed of grevous diseases. And so they have it in great estimation, they doe heale al manner of large diseases therewith: and also the sharpe diseases: especially Agues with the Water of it, provokyng Swets, and by this waie they heale many.” Near the same time, Thomas Harriot ([1590] 1972) wrote that plants in North Carolina were like “The China root brought from the East Indies.”
