とうもろこし

新大陸から来た作物。

17世紀、もしかしたら16世紀には ティモール島に入っていたかもしれない

[@hagerdal-lords_of_the_land] p.50 の 脚注より：

VOC1229 (1659), f. 854a refers to a harvest of `jagons' (jagung, that is, maize) which was ripe by March 1659. According t Boomgaard 1997:419, it is possible that maize was introduced as early as the sixteenth century in a number of islands in eastern Indonesia close to the Philippines, though the references are ambiguous. According to Reid 1993:19, it was established in Maluku by 1540, form where it could easily have reached Timor by way of Ternate seafarers.