ZANZIBAR 



delicious. It is also very good boiled as a vegetable 

 with pepper and salt. 



Zanzibar is noted for its fruit, but there is only 

 a limited number of kinds. Early in the year there 

 certainly are delicious mangoes, the large variety 

 from Bombay being most luscious ; the small red- 

 gold one which grows in such an abundance, and 

 is so cheap, is stringy and too strong with a tur- 

 pentine flavour to be pleasant. Coming in the hot 

 season they are most welcome. Then all through 

 the cool season the oranges are excellent, of several 

 varieties ; the native oranges grafted on to a citron 

 have a slightly acid flavour, the Portuguese orange 

 being sweeter. Mandarins, Tangerines and Seville 

 oranges are common, and lemons and large citrons, 

 but the small limes are what are usually used for cool 

 drinks. During the cool season there is a mango, 

 called English mango or golden apple, which we found 

 delicious eaten with pepper, salt and vinegar (though 

 I was laughed at by my friends for eating it that 

 way, as I had mistaken it for another fruit, till they 

 tried it themselves ! ). In fact, though some people 

 eat all fruits with sugar, I think most of the Zanzi- 

 bar fruit is best eaten as a salad, with vinegar, 

 pepper and salt ; that is the way I could eat avo- 

 cardo pears, papaws, melons and English man- 

 goes. 



A very large orange called shaddock, or the 

 forbidden fruit, with a very thick skin and lovely 



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