Barbacoa (Barbecue) and Groundnut (Peanut) (1555)

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THE CONQUEST OF THE RIVER PLATE
(1535-1555)
(...)
II.
THE COMMENTARIES OF ALVAR NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA
  FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH EDITION, 1555.
translated by Luis L. Dominguez
London: Hakluyt Society
1891

   OED missed the entire book this time.  Not a single citation from this work makes the dictionary!
   I don't have time to discuss the entire book right now.  This is the "barbacoa" cite, and it was written over 100 years before OED's first "barbecue."

Pg. 154:
   Every eighth day they came laden with venison and wild boar, roasted on _barbacoas_.(1) These barbacoas

1. _Barbacoa_, i.e., _parrillas_.


Pg. 155:
are like gridirons, standing two palms high above the ground, and made of light sticks.  The flesh is cut into steaks and then laid upon them and roasted.  They also brought much fish and plenty of other provisions such as grease, linen mantles woven of a kind of teasel,(1) dyed in bright colours; and skins of the tiger and tapir, deer and other animals.  When they came, the markets for the sale of all these commodities lasted two days.  The natives of the other side of the river bartered with them; it was a very great market, and they (the Guaycurus) behaved peacefully towards the Guaranis.  These gave them, in exchange for their commodities, maize, manioc, and mandubis; these last are like hazel nuts of _chufas_, and grow near the groun(2); they also supplied them with bows and arrows.

1. There are several classes of teasel (_cardas_) in Paraguai.  The fibres of one of them (the _caraguata_) are used instead of hemp and thread.
2. Pea-nuts.

(OED has 1860 for "chufa."  OED has 1543 for "maize."  OED has 1554 for "manioc."  Mandubis?  OED has 1807 for "peanut" and 1636 for "groundnut"--ed.)