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A Woman’s Journey Round the World

CHAPTER VII
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In Brazil, for instance, where the people call it monkeys' bread, it weighs from five to thirty pounds, and is full inside of kernels, which are taken out and eaten when the fruit is roasted.

These kernels taste like chestnuts.
The mango is a fruit resembling an apple, and of the size of a man's fist; both the rind and the fruit itself are yellow.

It tastes a little like turpentine, but loses this taste more and more the riper it gets.

This fruit is of the best description; it is full and juicy, and has a long, broad kernel in the middle.

The bread and mango trees grow to a great height and circumference.


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