Word: mandioca
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...willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...
...jungle with a machete. . . . His companions sickened and faced starvation. In spite of the fact that his feet were rotting from the humidity he walked 18 miles until he found some Indians with whom he was able to barter cloth, fish hooks and soap for some beans, corn and mandioca root to feed his party...
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