[The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingridge]@TWC D-Link bookThe First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea CHAPTER XI 44/60
There are two kinds of almonds: one with as much kernel as four nuts lengthways, the other in the shape of a triangle; its kernel is larger than three large ones of ours, and of an excellent taste. There is a kind of nut, hard outside, and the inside in one piece without a division, almost like a chestnut; the taste nearly the same as the nuts of Europe. Oranges grow without being planted.
With some the rind is very thick, with others delicate.
The natives do not eat them.
Some of our people said there were lemons. There are many, and very large, sweet canes; red and green, very long, with jointed parts.
Sugar might be made from them. Many and large trees, bearing a kind of nut, grew on the forest-covered slopes near the port.
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