There is neither seed nor stone in the inside, but all is of a pure substance like bread.

It must be eaten new; for if it is kept above twenty-four hours, it grows harsh and choaky; but it is very pleasant before it is too stale.

This fruit lasts in season eight months in the year, during which the natives eat no other sort of food of bread kind.

I did never see of this fruit anywhere but here.

The natives told us that there is plenty of this fruit growing on the rest of the Ladrone Islands; and I did never hear of it anywhere else.' Lord Anson corroborates this account of the bread-fruit, and says that, while at Tinian, it was constantly eaten by his officers and ship's company during their two months' stay, instead of bread; and so universally preferred, that no ship's bread was expended in that whole interval.