The outside is green, and rather rough and thin.

The natives scrape it with mussel-shells, and then split the fruit up long ways into two portions, which they roast between two heated stones.

The taste is delicious; it is finer than that of potatoes, and so like bread that the latter may be dispensed with without any inconvenience.

The South Sea Islands are the real home of the fruit.

It is true that it grows in other parts of the tropics, but it is very different from that produced here.