ABSTRACT
ON very hot days, when the weather is scorching, they spread out sheets like ships' sails, or even real sails, over a wide surface of ground or on flat spaces in the bare hills and lay on them the corn that is to be parched, usually for six days or thereabouts in the heat of the sun.1 Then they clean it and put it into oak bins or, when they have ground it into flour, keep it preserved in the same way.
