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in such vessels as are intended for holding water. Some 
parts of thejlotvers serve as tinder in the lighting of 
fire ; and the leaves are used for wrapping up food, and 
for other purposes. 
As the climate of the South Sea Islands is considered 
not much to differ from that of the West Indies > it was 
(about thirty years ago) thought desirable that some of 
the trees should be transferred, in a growing state, to 
our islands there. Consequently, his Majesty's ship the 
Bounty, in 1787, sailed for this purpose to the South 
.Seas, under the command of Lieutenant, afterwards 
Admiral Bligh. But a fatal mutiny of the ship's crew 
prevented the accomplishment of this benevolent de- 
sign. The commander of the vessel, however, returned 
in safety to his country ; and a second expedition un- 
der the same person, and for the same purpose, was 
fitted out in the year 179J. Captain Bligh arrived in, 
safety at Otaheite, and, after an absence from England 
of about eighteen months, landed in Jamaica with 352 
bread fruit-trees, in a living state, having left many 
others at different places in his passage thither. From 
Jamaica these trees were transferred to other islands ; 
but the negroes, having a general and long established 
predilection for the plantain (270), the bread fruit is not 
much relished by them. Where, however, it has not 
been generally introduced as an article of food, it is 
used as a delicacy ; and whether employed as bread, or 
in the form of pudding, it is considered highly palat- 
able by the European inhabitants. 
221. The JACK FRUIT is a species of breadfruit that is 
grown in Malabar and other parts of the East Indies, 
The tree which produces this fruit (Artocarpus integrifolia) 
differs from the common bread fruit-tree, in having the leaves 
entire, each about a span in length, oblong, blunt, serrated at 
the edges, bright green, and very smooth on the upper surface, 
paler beneath, and clad with stiff hairs. 
Few of the fruits even of eastern climates are so 
large as this. Its weight is sometimes upwards of 
