The mass breeds worms so rapidly, however, as Edwards informed us, that after the lapse of a month or two it is a jumble of yuca scraps and writhing articulates.
There is no bread on the Napo; the nearest approach to flour is yuca starch.
Footnote 118: In Peru, the liquor made fromyuca is called masato.
The yuca is the beet-like root of a little tree about ten feet high.
The houses are of split bamboo and palm-thatch, often hid in a plantation of yuca and plantain.
Our yuca fields are parched and the animals of the forest are disappearing.
Some families even duplicate chacras or farms at the river bank and grow yuca and sugar cane.
The clearings are occupied by Machigangas whose chief crops are yuca and corn; in the extreme upper left-hand corner are grassy slopes occupied by Quechua herdsmen and farmers who grow potatoes and corn.
Growing yucais shown by the naked stalks to the left and right of this canopy, and banana plants fill the background.
A tiny rubber plant is growing under the tripod made of yuca stems tied with banana leaves.
It is fitted by Nature to support numerous villages, but its vast solitudes are unbroken except at night, when a few families that live in the hills slip down to the river to gather yuca and cane.
Our Indian neighbors gave us yuca and corn, but their neighborliness went no further, for when our boatmen attempted to sleep under their roofs they drove them out and fastened as securely as possible the shaky door of their hut.
Before starting on even a short journey of two or three days a forest Indian stocks his canoe with sugar cane and yuca and a little parched corn.
A patch of yuca once planted will need but the most trifling attention for years.
We ought to reach Machu Pichu to-day andYuca Valley in two days more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yuca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
