BREAD-FRUIT. 
it when full grown, while it is green and hard; 
then they bake it in an oven, which scorches 
the rhind and makes it black : but they scrape 
o ff the outside black crust ; and there remains 
a tender thin crust, and the inside is soft, tender, 
and. white, like the crumb of a penny loaf. 
There is neither seed nor stone in the inside, 
but, all is of a pure substance like bread. It 
must be eaten new ; for, if it is kept above 
twenty-four hours, it becomes dry, and choaky : 
but it_ is very pleasant before it is too stale. 
This fruit lasts in season eight months in 
the year; during which time the natives eat 
no other sort of food of bread kind. .1 did 
never see of this fruit any where but here ; 
but the natives told us, that there is plenty of 
tin's fruit growing on the rest of the Ladrone 
Islands." 
It is likewise described by Rumphius, and 
by Anson. 
In Captain Cook's Voyage it is observed, 
that the Bread-Fruit Tree is about the size of 
a middling Oak. It's leaves are frequently 
a foot and a half long, of an oblong shape, 
deeply 
