To eat durian, as Mr Wallace says, is alone worth a voyage to the East.

But it has one strange quality--it smells so badly as to be at first almost nauseating; some people even can never bring themselves to touch it.

Once this repulsion is mastered the fruit will probably be preferred to all other foods.

The natives give it honourable titles, exalt it, and even wax poetical over it.
Of course we all know the multitudinous uses of the bamboo.

This grass is one of the most wonderful, beautiful and useful of Nature's gifts to uncivilized man.