1726. Shelvocke, Voy. round World, 52. Boiling the water, and soaking a quantity of this Farina in it.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazon, I. 28. Both are products of the same root, tapioca being the pure starch, and farinha the starch mixed with woody fibre.
1870. Dasent, Annals Eventful Life (ed. 4), I. iv. 44–5. My father was on deck, and soon made the acquaintance of his island merchants, who sold him salt-fish and farine and ale-wives to feed his slaves.
1893. Act 56–7 Vict., c 88, Sched. I. An extraordinary quantity of manioc, or cassada, commonly called farinha.
attrib. 1743. Bulkeley & Cummins, Voy. S. Seas, 170. They instantly sent on Board to the People four Quarters of Beef, and two Bags of Farine Bread.
