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green, and bake it in an oven, until the rind is black; this they 
scT-ape off ; and eat the inside, which is soft and white, like the 
inside of new baked bread, having neither seed nor stone ; but if 
it is kept above twenty-four hours it is harsh. As this fruit is in 
season eight months in the year, the natives feed upon no other 
sort of bread during that time," of which we are informed the ' 
Ladrone Islands produce large quantities. 
We have also been informed by captains of vessels, and sea- 
.nen, who have spent years in the countries where the Bread-fruit 
s most plenty, that the fruit is shaped like a heart, and increases 
•.o the size of a child's head. Its surface, or rind, is thick, green, 
and covered everywhere with warts, of a quadragonal or hexago- 
nal figure, like cut diamonds, but without points. The more flat 
and smooth these warts are, the less number of seeds are contained 
in the fruit, and the greater is the quantity of pith, and that of a 
more glutinous nature. The internal part of the rind, or peel, 
consists of a fleshy substance, full of twisted fibres, which have 
the appearance of fine wool. These adhere to, and in some 
measure form it. The fleshy part of the fruit becomes softer to- 
wards the middle, where there is a small cavity formed, without 
any nuts or seeds, except in one species, which has but a small 
number ; and this sort is not considered good, unless it is baked, 
or prepared in some other way : but, if the outward rind be taken 
off, and the fibrous flesh dried, and afterwards boiled with meat, 
as we do cabbage, it has then the taste of Cynara, artichoke 
bottoms. The inhabitants of Amboyna dress it in the liquor of 
cocoa-nuts ; but they prefer it roasted on coals, till the outward 
part, or peel, is burnt. They afterwards cut it into pieces, and 
eat it with the milk of the cocoa-nut. Some people make fritters 
of it, or fry it in oil ; and others, as the Sumatria.ns, dry the inter- 
nal soft part, and keep it to use as bread, with other food. It af- 
fords a great quantity of nourishment, and is very satisfying; and 
