 | Sir John Barrow - 1832 - 320 pages
...taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for bread. They gather it, when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in...inside is soft, tender, and white, like the crumb of a penny-loaf. There is neither seed nor stone in the inside, but all is of a pure substance like bread.... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...penny loaf when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind. When the fruit is ripe, it is yellow and soft,...they bake it in an oven which scorcheth the rind, aud maketh it black ; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin... | |
 | Frederic William Naylor Bayley - 1833 - 782 pages
...gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in an oven, which scorches the rind and makes it black, but they scrape off the...remains a tender thin crust, and the inside is soft, J tender, and white, like the crumbs of a penny loaf. There is neither seed nor stone in the inside,... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for bread. They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in an oven which scorcheth the rind, and maketh it black; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust,... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 692 pages
...taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for bread. They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in...rind, and makes it black, but they scrape off the • • i *-i !•• black crust and there remains a tender thin crust ; and the inside is soft, tender,... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - 1835 - 1050 pages
...it for bread. Tb<!y gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in и oven which scorcheth the rind, and makes it black, but they scrape off the •'•••'>• black crust and there remains a tender thin crust ; and the inside is soft, tender,... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 742 pages
...taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for brea.1 ; they gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard; then they bake it in an oven, which scorches the rind and makes it black : but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains... | |
 | William Bligh - 1838 - 86 pages
...penny-loaf when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind. When the fruit is ripe, it is yellow and soft,...inside is soft, tender, and white like the crumb of a penny-loaf. There is neither seed nor stone in the inside, but all is of a pure substance, like bread.... | |
 | William Rhind - 1841 - 756 pages
...taste is sweet and pleasant. The natives of Guam use it for bread. They gather it when full grown, while it is green and hard ; then they bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind, and maketh it black ; but they scrape off the outside black crust, and there remains a tender thin crust;... | |
 | 1842 - 452 pages
...penny loaf when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick, tough rind. When the fruit is ripe it is yellow and soft,...bake it in an oven, which scorcheth the rind, and maketh it black ; but they scrape off the outside Mack crust, and there remains a tender thin crust... | |
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The fruit grows on the boughs like apples ; it is as big as a penny-loaf when wheat is at five shillings the bushel ; it is of a round shape, and hath a thick tough rind. When the fruit is ripe, it is yellow and soft, and the taste is sweet and pleasant.... 
