... plants, with their long, rigid, sword sh leaves, in some species jagged or toothed along their edges. Then there was the bread~fruit tree-an importation, it is true; but remarkable from its large, glossy, dark green, strongly digitated foliage, and its i ...

... ?? partially dyed with lime, or powdered with a sub- stance resembling our hair-powder, said to be the ashes of the bread- fruit tree-together with the scanty dress of the men, consisting merely of a small bag, suspended by a narrow strip of native cloth ...

... imbedded in a creamy substance, and yet the taste is described by Mr Crawfurd as very like fresh cream and filberts. The bread-fruit tree rises to the height of forty or fifty feet, and attracts the notice of the European by its' enormous sharply-lobed leaves ...

... t, rye, oat, maize, or rice, each different, but alike sufficing. Freely for him the palm, the date, the banana, the bread-fruit tree, the pine, spread out a harvest on the air; and pleasant apple, plum, or peach solicit his ready hand. Beneath his foot ...