There are two kinds of camotes, the yellow and the violet; the latter are called Camotes moradas.
The corn bore ears, and the camotes produced big sound roots; but these were not sufficient to support the three brothers.
Be very good to one another, and continue working, for our camoteswill soon have roots, and our corn ears.
As soon as they arrived there, each set to work: one cut down trees, another built a shed, and the others cleared a piece of land in which to plant the camotes and corn.
The next morning, on the pretext of planting camotes [60] and corn on the hill some thirty miles away from the village, he ordered his sons to accompany him.
The journey through Leyte Gulf, Surigao Strait, and the Camotes Sea was uneventful.
From it one could command a view of Ormoc Valley to the east and the Camotes Sea and Cebu to the west.
At this point it turned and twisted to the southwest for approximately five and a half miles to the vicinity of San Miguel, from where it arched 3,500 yards to Look, on the Camotes Sea.
Units of the 7th Division, far to the south, were moving westward toward Baybay on the shore of the Camotes Sea.
On 21 December General Suzuki ordered the regiment to make a defensive stand, so that the main force of the 35th Army could withdraw to the Palompon sector on the shore of the Camotes Sea.
After the attention of the Japanese had been diverted to the struggle in the northern mountains, the X Corps could launch a drive against Ormoc, proceeding north from Baybay on Highway 2 along the shores of the Camotes Sea and of Ormoc Bay.
They had prevented the Japanese 26th Division from going south along the eastern shore of the Camotes Sea and had held back the best the enemy had to offer.
On the same day the transports carrying the Takahashi and Camotes Detachments were forced to put in at Palompon on the west coast.
Most of the strikes, however, were against Japanese shipping in Ormoc Bay and in the vicinity of the Camotes Islands.
The airmen of the Fifth Air Force continued to hit shipping in Ormoc Bay and in the Camotes Islands, and they also achieved success against bridges, airfields, troops, camp areas, and transportation.
His chief foods are rice or corn, fish, camotes (sweet potatoes), and occasionally chicken or other meat.
Both corn and camotes flourish in Bukidnon, where the former often attains a height of from twelve to eighteen feet and produces one to four ears to the stalk.
Planting camotes on a large scale and close subsequent pasturing of the land with hogs would leave the soil enriched and in excellent condition for planting with other crops.
There are scattered places within the Cebuano area which use a speech widely aberrant from what we describe here: Surigao, Bantayan Islands, and the Camotes Islands.
Make what we plant also to live; beans to live; camotes to live; to be for keeping us alive.
A kind of root eaten by the Igorot when the supply of rice or camotesis limited.
But if he is tardy in making this prohibition, he must pay for the labor expended, or must allow the continuance of the work, and the harvesting of one crop of camotes from the land.
In Kiangan, where camotes do not play such an important part in subsistence, the fields are in any case abandoned after one or two years.
Thus in Banaue, where camotes form a very large part of the subsistence of the people, the fields are cultivated for five or even six years, if located near the village; if more distant, they are abandoned after about two years.
For that reason, they are abandoned after a period that varies in different districts of Ifugao according as camotes are a more or less important factor in the subsistence of the people.
Forest lands that have been divested of their wood may be planted in camotes (sweet potatoes) by any person without asking the consent of the owner.
The reason for abandoning the fields is that the soil wears out soon, so that the camotes grow small, and the yield does not repay the labor spent in cultivation.
Little girls often help about the dwelling by paring camotes for the forthcoming meal.
Camotes are always prepared immediately before being cooked, as they blacken very quickly after paring.
In about half an hour after the man arises the camotes and rice are put over to cook.
The average size of all the eight varieties of Bontoc camotes is about 2 by 4 inches in diameter.
To illustrate the many varieties which may exist in a small area I give the names of five other camotes grown in the pueblo of Balili, which is only about four hours from Bontoc.
The irrigated sementeras are also planted to camotes by transplanting from these house beds.
Camotes are eaten raw a great deal about the pueblo, the sementera, and the trail.
Camotes are sometimes stored in the granary after the harvest of the irrigated fields.
The Igorot has not developed a way to preserve his camotes long after harvest; they are readily perishable, consequently no place has been differentiated as a storehouse.
This means, "May there be so many camotes that the ground will crack and burst open.
In January, 1903, a woman and her son, of Titipan, stole camotes of another Titipan family.
The Archipelago as a whole should produce sufficient rice, tapioca, corn, and camotes to feed the whole population.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "camotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
