The History of the Island of Dominica Containing a Description of Its Situati
The History of the Island of Dominica Containing a Description of Its Situati
Attwood, Thomas, 1783-1856
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They are excellent fruit, and are greedily eaten by all kinds of animals ^ for even horfes, who are in general not fond of fruit, will eagerly eat them. This is the fruit which is called in the Weft Indies " Vegetable marrow, '' from its rich melting tafte, and it is juftly reckoned the beft and moft wholefome fruit of the country. Some people eat them with fait and black pepper, others with lime-juice and fyrup, and fome without either ^ but the generality of the French eat them with fiih or f...iefli, with which they are very relifhing. The feed of the alli- gator pear, which is nearly one-third part of the fruit, and fhakes within it when ripe, has the appearance of the infide part of a horfe- chefnut. 92 THE HISTORY OF chefnut, and has a very firm colour; for which reafon it is commonly ufed to mark linen with. This is done, by covering the feed with the cloth, and pricking out the letters with a pin ; the juice filling up the pundtures, ftains the form of the letters fo durably, that they are not to be wafhed out, only decaying with the cloth.
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