Letter of Best to Beattie 28 November 1918. Note on southern places where kūmara, taro grown.
Food
"Dieffenbach saw the taro grown at Queen Charlotte Sound in 1839. The kūmara was cultivated about Nelson." (Best in letter to Beattie). Beattie has attached notes: "re kūmara, furtherest south Taumutu" Taumutu is on the shores of Lake Ellesmere.
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Letter of Best to Beattie, 28 Nov 1918.
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