From the grease they get the _yalagala_, used instead of tar.
In fine, it is a tree without necessity for cultivation, and bearing all the year round.
There are three kinds of plantains: one, the best I have seen, pleasant to smell, tender and sweet.
There are many _Obos_, which is a fruit nearly the size and taste of a peach, on whose leaves may be reared silkworms, as is done in other parts.
There is a great abundance of a fruit which grows on tall trees, with large serrated leaves.

They are the size of ordinary melons, their shape nearly round, the skin delicate, the surface crossed into four parts, the pulp between yellow and white, with seven or eight pips.

When ripe it is very sweet, when green, it is eaten boiled or roasted.

It is much eaten, and is found wholesome.

The natives use it as ordinary food.