But there seems an immense quantity of pepper, or hot stuff of some kind or other; which one would have thought, in this tremendous heat, would have made one hotter instead of cooler." "Yes," their new friend answered.

"No doubt all this pepper and curry do heat the blood; but you see, it is done to tempt the appetite.

Meat here is fearfully coarse and tasteless.

Our appetites are poor, and were it not for these hot sauces, we should eat next to nothing.
"Will you have some bananas ?" "They are nice and cool," Peters said as, having peeled the long fruit as he saw his companion doing, he took a bite of one; "but they have very little taste." "Most of our fruit is tasteless," Johnson said, "except, indeed, the mango and mangostine.

They are equal to any English fruit in flavour, but I would give them all for a good English apple.