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" This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to it, it seems at first to smell like rotten onions, but immediately they have tasted it they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on... "
The Castaways - Page 59
by Mayne Reid - 1920
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of ..., Volume 1

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 360 pages
...of the world, according to those who have tasted it." And Doctor Paludanus adds : — " This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." When brought into a house the smell is often so offensive that some persons can never bear to taste...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of ..., Volume 2

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it." And Doctor Paludanus adds : " This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honorable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." When brought into a house the smell is often so...
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A Descriptive Dictionary of British Malaya

Nicholas Belfield Dennys - 1894 - 468 pages
...of the world, according to those who have tasted it." And Doctor PALUDANUS adds : — " This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...honourable titles, exalt it and make verses on it." When brought into the house, the smell is often so offensive that some persons can never bear to taste...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 38

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle - 1897 - 628 pages
...fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it.' And Doctor Paludanus adds, " This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honorable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." When brought into a house the smell is often so...
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Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne - 1897 - 674 pages
...fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it." And Doctor Paludanus adds, " This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honorable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." When brought into a house the smell is often so...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1902 - 566 pages
...to those who have tasted it." And Doctor Paludanus adds : — "This fruit is of a hot and I in mid nature. To those not used to it, it seems at first...honourable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it." When brought into a house the smell is often so offensive that some persons can never bear to taste...
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The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East

James Johnston Abraham - 1911 - 440 pages
...flavour all the other fruits of the world, according to those that have tasted it." Paludanus says : " It is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to it it seems at first to smell of rotten onions, but immediately they have tasted it they prefer it to all other foods. The natives...
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The Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East

James Johnston Abraham - 1911 - 408 pages
...flavour all the other fruits of the world, according to those that have tasted it." Paludanus says : " It is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to it it seems at first to 894 smell of rotten onions, but immediately they have tasted it they prefer it to all other foods....
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Food and Flavor: A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living

Henry T. Finck - 1913 - 640 pages
...disagreeable while the flavor is exquisite. This is true of the durion. Dr. Paludanus informs us that "to those not used to it, it seems at first to smell...have tasted it they prefer it to all other food." The great naturalist, Alfred Russell Wallace, says of it in his great work on the Malayan Archipelago that...
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The Warner Library, Volume 25

Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 752 pages
...fruits of the world, according to those who have tasted it. " And Doctor Paludanus adds, "This fruit is of a hot and humid nature. To those not used to...they prefer it to all other food. The natives give it honorable titles, exalt it, and make verses on it. " When brought into a house the smell is often so...
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