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-considered an aid to digestion. Some people prefer to eat it with a 

 little sugar and fresh lemon or lime juice. It may also be made 

 into jam or sauce, and lin the unripe state may he pickled, or 



PAPAW, OR PAPAYA. Ca rica Papaya. 



boiled and used as a vegetable. The seeds have a flavour like that 

 of water-cress, and are relished by some as a substitute for it. The 

 milky juice (papaine), obtained from incisions made in the unripe 

 fruit (bv a bone or ivory knife), curdles milk, like rennet, and is 



