BREAD-FRUIT. 
to distant countries, the varieties will hereaftei" 
be found much increased. 
The fruit of the other variety contains a 
considerable quantity of oblong seeds, almost 
as large as chesnuts, which are attached to a 
fleshy and very considerable placenta, occupy- 
ing the centre. They are eaten, in some pla- 
ces, by the savage inhabitants, either boiled or 
roasted ; but are more 6brous, less juicey, and 
in all respe6ls much inferior to the former. 
Before the discovery of the South Sea Islands, 
therefore, the Bread Fruit had not acauired 
that degree of reputation which it is now 
known to deserve, though it had then been 
lono- known in manv parts of the East Indies. 
In Otaheite, the seedless variety is alone re- 
garded. Capt. King informs us that, in the 
Sandwich Islands, these trees are plentiful, and 
flourisii with o-reat luxuriance on risins: 
grounJs; tinit they are not, indeed, in sucii 
abundance, but that thev produce double the 
(quantity of fruit which they do on the rich 
J iains of Oraiieite; that the trees are nearlv of 
ihc same height, but that the branches begin 
to 
