The pulp between the nuts is the part eaten, and it is of a pleasant juicy nature, having a sweet acidulous taste.

The fruit itself resembles a large yellow orange, but the rind is hard, and, with the pips and bark, contains much of the deadly poison.

They evince their noxious qualities by an intensely bitter taste.

The nuts, swallowed inadvertently, cause considerable pain, but not death; and to avoid this inconvenience, the people dry the pulp before the fire, in order to be able the more easily to get rid of the noxious seeds.
A much better fruit, called mobola, was also presented to us.

This bears, around a pretty large stone, as much of the fleshy part as the common date, and it is stripped off the seeds and preserved in bags in a similar manner to that fruit.