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 59by Mayne Reid - 1920Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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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