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And everything that grows: frangipani, jacaranda, mangwansi beans, sugarcane, breadfruit, bird of paradise. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
Each was nearly the size of an infant bonobo, and a few breadfruit were enough of a meal for the whole group. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
The children would have come back from the stream and would be taunting and chasing one another under the breadfruit tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
My father had memories of eating potato, breadfruit, and avocado peels that he was supposed to be feeding to his mother’s pigs. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian contains words for many tropical crops like taro, breadfruit, bananas, yams, and coconuts, for which no word can be reconstructed in Proto-Austronesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
She sat on a stump under the breadfruit tree, her back to me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
Ugwu was watching the children running around the breadfruit tree, taunting and shouting, when Nnesinachi arrived with a baby on her hip and a sparkle in her eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z
The room was cold, its cement walls whiter than I remembered, the window shaded by a breadfruit tree, its large leaves shedding pale reflections against the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
The rest of the night, he spends with his breadfruit head rocking on my belly button. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
We made a fire and grilled a breadfruit for dinner while waiting for the stream to turn white. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z
Behind the house, under the breadfruit tree, there was a pigsty, now empty, the mud the pigs loved to bathe in dried into dusty ridges. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z
There were home gardens, breadfruit and coconut trees, and houses that stayed dry most of the year. First village relocated due to climate change 2012-09-19T19:03:00Z
The Breadfruit Institute works within Hawaii''s National Tropical Botanical Garden to research and promote breadfruit cultivation, and is home to the world's largest collection of breadfruit cultivars, with 150 different varieties. 7 Instagram accounts for learning about tropical fruit 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z
There are breadfruit festivals, recipe contests and a farmers cooperative for small-scale breadfruit farmers. Pandemic disruptions highlighted importance of local food system in Hawai’i 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z
A breadfruit can be best described as a large, round potato that grows in a tree in the Caribbean and South Pacific regions. How breadfruit matzo balls became a staple for the Barbadian Jewish community 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z
The market, a series of  open-air stalls on the edge of the harbor, teems with Rastafarian farmers selling bananas, okra and breadfruit. A Caribbean Without the Crowds: Bequia, a Caribbean Getaway From the Getaways 2011-11-11T19:45:00Z
Eat its zestily prepared chicken, pork or fish with roasted breadfruit under a thatched umbrella alongside locals. Five affordable destinations for a do-it-yourself wellness vacation 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z
One of those recipes is Breadfruit Matzo Balls, made using the flour from local breadfruit in place of matzo meal. How breadfruit matzo balls became a staple for the Barbadian Jewish community 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z
When I arrived, adults were cooking breadfruit in a wood-fired, outdoor kitchen. The 52 Places Traveler: São Tomé and Príncipe, Where Nature has the Upper Hand 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z
The evening Haitian sun is casting long shadows from the breadfruit tree where Andrés is scouting potential outdoor seating for the renewed fish cafe outside the orphanage. José Andrés thinks food can fix the world, starting in Haiti
The scent of nutmeg conjures places where, to paraphrase beloved old sexist-pig poet Philip Larkin, boys and old men “dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, whatever they are.” Spirits: Nutmeg, unlike ‘pumpkin spice,’ gives cocktails a subtle taste of fall
Another Native crop seeing a resurgence is breadfruit, which the Hawaiians call 'ulu. Pandemic disruptions highlighted importance of local food system in Hawai’i 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z
If she wasn’t busy making a local breadfruit dish for the men doing renovation work on the restaurant, she might be playing Scrabble with local schoolgirls. A Caribbean Without the Crowds: Bequia, a Caribbean Getaway From the Getaways 2011-11-11T19:45:00Z
Terraced hillsides are planted with coffee, coconut, avocado, manioc, sugar cane, mango, banana and breadfruit crops. Cape Verde gets its moment in the sun 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z
A full kitchen awaited, filled with produce they had grown in their own yard: coconut, sweet peppers, plantains, bay leaves, breadfruit, soursop and more. Going Local on the Island of St. Lucia 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z
Following their account, you'll also find tips for cleaning and cooking breadfruit and information about soil health. 7 Instagram accounts for learning about tropical fruit 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z
The men are peaceable, discreet, and happy to cultivate any quantity of breadfruit in exchange for cheap trinkets. The Bounty: a waste of paradise 2011-03-24T10:56:22Z
In 1778, British explorer Capt. James Cook was welcomed when he anchored off the Hawaiian islands by locals eager to trade cuttlefish, breadfruit and pigs for nails and iron tools. After the Maui fire, some Hawaiians rethink aloha spirit. Is it for tourists, family, everyone? 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z
By contrast, researchers believe breadfruit and kukui nut — now the state tree of Hawaii — were among the many edible plants Polynesian voyagers brought around 1,000 years ago. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
Later inhabitants built pole-and-thatch dwellings and grew crops such as taro and breadfruit. Female lineages anchored Pacific islands for 2000 years 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z
The island also has plans to plant a tree as part of the Queen's Green Canopy issue – a coconut, a palm or a breadfruit tree. Pitcairn Islands to light final Platinum Jubilee beacon 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z
It's a one pot dish, which was all slaves were able to cook, made of pigs tails and salted fish and breadfruit high in carbohydrates. Grenada: Confronting my family’s slave-owning past 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z
“It’s in all the plants we have, avocado trees, and breadfruit trees, and fruit trees and regular household plants.” Refinery rained oil onto Virgin Islands community that awaits cleanup a month later 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z
The volunteers working to save Lahaina’s breadfruit have dug down to extract viable root matter. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
For example, broccoli, collards and taro leaves all count as dark green vegetables, and breadfruit, cassava and potatoes all count as starchy vegetables. Personalize your plate (and your diet) for National Nutrition Month 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z
The family sells coconuts, bananas and breadfruit to earn extra money. 'It's broken me into a million pieces': six months on from Samoa's deadly measles outbreak 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z
Within a year of starting this project, Sapra began noticing renewed health of the soil and increased blooms and fruit production from his citrus, breadfruit and mango plants. A farm to withstand a cyclone: rebuilding after Fiji's worst storm 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z
It’s in all the plants we have, avocado trees, and breadfruit trees, and fruit trees and regular household plants.” Refinery rained oil onto Virgin Islands community that awaits cleanup a month later 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z
In one case, they peeled back asphalt that butted against a charred breadfruit trunk. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
Bligh was supposed to deliver breadfruit plants to the West Indies, as Banks hoped they'd become a cheap way of feeding slaves. The clever glass box that reshaped the world 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
“They took the coconut” — he pointed off to his left — “and they took the breadfruit” — he pointed off to his right — “and they put it into the canoe. When the canoe lands, they plant.” Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z
A small lens of fresh water has supported life on the Marshall Islands’ atolls for millennia, but, as salt water intrudes, breadfruit trees and banana palms wilt and die. How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z
Simpliciano, who owns Simpli-Fresh Produce, said he lost acres of turmeric and Moringa, along with an orchard full of mango, citrus, banana and breadfruit trees, as well as a host of nursery starter plants. Repeated natural disasters pummel Hawaii’s farms, affecting macadamia nuts, taro, papaya, flower harvests 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z
When ripe breadfruit falls, it splats and rots in an unsightly, gooey, fragrant mess. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
A popular legend tells the tale of a frail, old woman who asks for food from two girls cooking breadfruit. When lava flows, a Hawaiian goddess’ name is invoked 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z
When asked years later if she could locate the grave, she replied, "It is underneath the biggest breadfruit tree on the whole island." Amelia Earhart found! Great for science, but sad news for mystery buffs 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z
The rather more peaceful image of a young western lowland gorilla feeding on breadfruit is the subject of the Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year winning entry. Photo of butchered rhino wins top award 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z
It is usually something local, like Jamaican ackee, which is a fruit, but it’s cooked as a vegetable with salted cod fish, and we usually eat it with dumplings or roasted breadfruit. How Paul Rose, a Tennis Coach, Spends His Sundays 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z
“But restoring some of the breadfruit groves as part of the individual homeowner’s landscape, now that is a worthy cause, because those can be managed a little bit better.” The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
"All the banana trees, all the mangos, everything is gone," Nelson said as he boiled breadfruit over a charcoal fire. Bahamas next up for Matthew after destructive path in Haiti 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z
This culture grew taro, yams, and breadfruit; domesticated pigs and chickens; and spread rapidly to the islands of Vanuatu and New Caledonia and eventually to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and beyond.  ‘Game-changing’ study suggests first Polynesians voyaged all the way from East Asia 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z
The country produces coconuts and breadfruit, and sells fishing licenses for the international trawlers that scour Marshallese waters for tuna, but it leans heavily upon the aid of others. Climate change and the Marshall Islands: lives in the balance 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z
I wanted to live on a South Seas island and eat breadfruit for the rest of my life. Hamilton Biographer Ron Chernow Finds New York’s ‘Quietest’ Home 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z
Pellegrino, who calls himself an outsider because he’s not from Lahaina, says reintegrating breadfruit and restoring wetlands, canals and streams could bring a new future for the town. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
The community had piled a long table with lobster, fish, breadfruit, plantains and rice balls with coconut. The Secrets of the Wave Pilots 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z
The entire space has ocean views over the tops of mango, avocado, sapodilla and breadfruit trees, and is open to the decks set among the pools and pond. House Hunting in ...Trinidad and Tobago 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z
The boxing club on her archipelago home consists of a punch bag hanging from a breadfruit tree. The alternative 2014 sport awards 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z
“Think of sautéed breadfruit as a platform for any kind of cuisine or flavor,” Ragone told the Wall Street Journal. Forget Kale. Try These Three REAL Superfoods 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z
Before colonialism, commercial agriculture and tourism, thousands of breadfruit trees dotted Lahaina; the fire charred all but two of the dozen or so that remained. The trees arrived with Polynesian voyagers. After Maui wildfire, there’s a chance to restore them 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z
The property also features a banana patch as well as a fruit orchard with star fruit, avocado, mango, breadfruit, citrus, fig, coconut and apple trees. LeBron James Selling Miami Palace 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z
Her national boxing club consists of a punch bag hanging from a breadfruit tree. Big names, full stadiums and rattled eardrums 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z
Not bad for a kid who learned her trade on a punch bag hanging from a breadfruit tree. The Commonwealths boxer who had never been in a ring 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z
Studies show that more than 80% of the world’s poor and hungry live in subtropical regions — perfect for breadfruit trees. Forget Kale. Try These Three REAL Superfoods 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z
If they succeed the breadfruit farm would be the first non-ranching venture at the park. Hawaii County eyes breadfruit farming in Kapulena 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z
The future of Abaiang’s coconut plantations is uncertain This means there is enough land on which to grow food, staples include breadfruit and coconut. Kiribati island: Sinking into the sea? 2013-11-25T11:09:00Z
The breadfruit trees, the taro, the saltwater is going to kill them. Drowning Kiribati 2013-11-21T18:25:49Z
The Kiribati boxing club consists of a punch bag hanging from a breadfruit tree.  The Commonwealths boxer who had never been in a ring 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z
The farm's produce includes aubergines, breadfruit, lady's fingers and pumpkins, as well as herbs such as dill, basil and lemongrass. Finding paradise in retirement 2013-09-24T22:30:54Z
When she was a girl, Koringo remembers collecting food for her school lunch - coconuts, breadfruit, mango, papaya - all available and free. Tinned pineapple in the Pacific Islands 2013-08-25T23:09:53Z
In December 1787, His Majesty’s Armed Vessel Bounty left England for Tahiti to collect breadfruit with which to feed slaves on Britain’s Caribbean plantations. Tom Christian, Descendant of Bounty Mutineer, Dies at 77 2013-08-24T01:22:35Z
All over this sequestered plain were scattered the breadfruit and cocoa trees, while picturesque villages of bamboo dotted it in every direction. The Second War with England, Vol. 2 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:38.213Z
In Tonga, on the other hand, children are generally reared safely by hand upon a diet of cooked breadfruit made into a liquid with cocoanut-milk. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z
They were cultivating rice, maize, breadfruit, and had also cocoanuts, oranges, bananas, citron, and ginger. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z
Fresh plantations of taro and bananas were started, pawpaw trees and breadfruit were put in wherever space offered, and a close fence across the valley kept the pigs and goats from intruding. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z
We shall want some breadfruit for dinner," said Mary, "so we had better go that way. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
They brought along sweet potatoes, breadfruit, bananas, sugarcane, and yams. How an Interconnected Planet Is Fueling the Brewing Viral Storm 2011-10-11T11:15:00.227Z
His master, Captain William Bligh, was sent in the “Bounty” to convey breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z
He has no idea, poor wretch, of the spiritual destitution of a coral reef in the Pacific, or what it costs to look up the precious souls among the cocoanuts and breadfruits. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z
Instead, they spend many hours in hammocks among groves of orange and breadfruit trees. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z
"Hadn't we better fetch our breadfruit first, now we are in this direction?" The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Along a stretch of fence were vendors selling breadfruit, homemade “saltfish” and jerk chicken. Sweat: In New York, a Caribbean Sisterhood of Netball 2011-08-27T02:39:09Z
When your widow that is to be gives the Venner the sack, you must privately provide her with a sack of breadfruit. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z
The group also holds workshops to teach people to make traditional foods such as breadfruit flour and preserved pandanus. Terms of Engulfment: "Changes in the Skies" Alter and Raise Concerns about the Longevity of Pacific Island Languages 2011-05-11T10:15:00.243Z
To this list of indigenous products may be added ginger, arrowroot, etc., as well as many fruits scarcely known outside the tropics, such as the mango, alligator-pear, breadfruit, and numerous others. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z
She had seen young birds fed by hand, and she at once cut a thin stick and sharpened its end, upon which she stuck a little bit of breadfruit. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
In a limited way fruit trees, such as the soursop, custardapple, breadfruit, and jak may also be used as shade, and these should be planted from 6 to 12 meters apart according to size. The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 2011-04-13T02:00:12.527Z
They shared the broad shades of breadfruit, local apple, and cashew trees with the true landowners—the departed—in their subterranean abode. Wole Soyinka on Lagos 2011-03-06T05:00:00Z
It belongs to the natural order of the Atrocarpads, which, by what might appear a curious coincidence, includes also the celebrated breadfruit. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z
Is there a mine to exploit, a railway to build, a native to convert from breadfruit to tinned meat, from temperance to trade-gin, the German and the Englishman are struggling to be first. American World Policies
It would be necessary to go once more in search of food, for they found the breadfruit too insipid to form their only vegetable diet. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Among the articles served to us was the tropical breadfruit, which might really be mistaken for a loaf fresh from the baker's oven. Reminiscences, 1819-1899
In front of our house is a broad stretch of grass, dotted with cocoanuts, breadfruits, mangoes, and the strange pandanus tree. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25)
I have walked in one, with equal admiration and surprise, through a forest of huge breadfruits, eating bananas and stumbling among taro as I went. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
To the west, a swift cold river ran down, and beyond was the green of the village, dotted with cocoa-palms and breadfruits and houses. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)
The breadfruit gave out, and having found no more oranges or bananas, they grew very tired of a diet of fish and cocoanuts. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
The well-known breadfruit tree bears during eight successive months in the year, and by burying the fruit in the ground it may be preserved for food for the remaining four months. History of Human Society
In the tropics one sees fruits that do not become bright colored on ripening, such as the breadfruit, the custard apple, the naseberry, the mango. Ways of Nature
The word popoi serves in different islands to indicate the main food of the people; thus, in Hawaii, it implies a preparation of taro; in the Marquesas, of breadfruit. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
The road is at this point broad and fairly good, running between thick groves of cocoa-palm and breadfruit. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)
A few days after the discovery of the breadfruit, they made a lengthy excursion along the southern shore. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Thus the citrous fruits, the date, the banana, breadfruit, papaw, persimmon, apple, cherry, plum, pear, all grew in a wild state, providing food for man if he were ready to take it as provided. History of Human Society
They call it breadfruit in these parts, and the natives eat it; but it certainly does not look either inviting or eatable. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam'
A few years ago a drought killed the breadfruit trees and the bananas in the district of Anaho; and from this calamity, and the open-handed customs of the island, a singular state of things arose. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
Once, in their walks, they spied a breadfruit tree bearing in the garden of an English merchant, ran back to the prison to get a shilling, and came and offered to purchase. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25)
The girls were provided by their new friends with an excellent meal of fish, breadfruit and other fruits, some of which were strange to them. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Among these fruits were the banana, plantain, breadfruit, and a sort of mango, found in Farther India, and which, at first disliked, becomes in time a great favorite with every one. Adrift on the Pacific A Boys [sic] Story of the Sea and its Perils
The Tanus scattered in a dozen noisy parties, looting and burning the houses, barking the breadfruit trees, shooting the pigs and horses, devastating with diabolical thoroughness the inland plantations that sustained the village. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas
A little back from the breach, and not half a mile from Anaho, I was the more amazed to find a cluster of well-doing breadfruits heavy with their harvest. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
Agricultural production, primarily subsistence, is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit. The 2008 CIA World Factbook
"If we only had some breadfruit, or even bananas, we should like it better," said Mary. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
When near night Luckiair and myself went out and gathered some breadfruit, and after making a hearty meal, slept soundly upon our mats until morning. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
You can imagine Captain Coe's feelings when, rounding up a three months' cruise, he found this six-foot-three of black devil and hypocrite snugged in the Mission house like a maggot in a breadfruit. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas
In the tapu grove he found one fellow stealing breadfruit, cheerful and impudent as a street arab; and it was only on a menace of exposure that he showed himself the least discountenanced. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
Agricultural production,   primarily subsistence, is concentrated on small farms; the most   important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit. The 2008 CIA World Factbook
The girls asked him what was the purpose of the pit, and he thought at first that it had been dug as a storehouse for breadfruit. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Their living consists simply of breadfruit, cocoanuts, and bup; but cocoanuts are all they can depend on the year round—the two other articles being common only a part of the year. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
In Brazil I have often admired the contrast of varied beauty in the banana, palm, and orange tree; here we have in addition the breadfruit tree, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
The interior of this vessel is crowded with lovely and valuable trees,—orange, breadfruit, mummy-apple, coco, the island 30 chestnut, and for weeds, the pine and the banana. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25)
It was surrounded and much shaded, by beautiful breadfruit trees, and very large cocoa-nut trees; too largely beautiful, indeed, for they shut out many a healthy breeze that we sorely needed! The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
"I know they are breadfruit," said Mary gleefully. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
The next morning we were employed in gathering breadfruit, for the purpose of curing it for the winter. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
Wallis and Futuna imports food—particularly flour, sugar, rice, and beef—fuel, clothing, machinery, and transport equipment, but its exports are negligible, consisting mostly of breadfruit, yams, and taro root. The 1999 CIA World Factbook
Agricultural production is concentrated on   small farms, and the most important commercial crops are coconuts,   tomatoes, melons, and breadfruit. The 2001 CIA World Factbook
But a cousin of Miaki, evidently secreted to watch us, sprang from behind a breadfruit tree, and swinging his tomahawk, aimed it at my brow with a fiendish look. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
I do hope, though, that we shall find more bananas, for I'm sure I shall soon get tired of the breadfruit. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
After a successful excursion in fishing, we cooked a part, and took some breadfruit, and embarked, agreeably to the wishes of my master’s wife, and arrived at Luguonewort in two days. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
A tree noticeable for its perfect foliage is the breadfruit; and there are sensitive plants that shrink from intimate attention, and water-plants whose roots need not come into contact with the earth. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Fruits of several kinds abounded on the island, among the most abundant being bananas, mangoes, breadfruit, and cocoa-nuts. The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
About two o'clock the Natives return from their work, bathe in the sea, and dine off cocoanut, breadfruit, or anything else that comes handily in the way. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
As soon as it could be cooked, they brought us an ample meal of hot baked fowls, pigeons, and fish, with a great quantity of vegetables—taro, yams, breadfruit, and sweet potatoes. The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton 1902
The drought continued about four months with such severity that most of the breadfruit trees on the small Islands were so completely dried up that they never sprouted again. A Narrative of the Mutiny, on Board the Ship Globe, of Nantucket, in the Pacific Ocean, Jan. 1824 And the journal of a residence of two years on the Mulgrave Islands; with observations on the manners and customs of the inhabitants
Serena and the baby are in the breadfruit grove behind the village. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
In the South Sea Islands the breadfruit constitutes the principal article of diet; it is prepared by baking in an oven heated by hot stones. Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
By and by, however, they set fire to a large district belonging to our supporters burning cocoanut and breadfruit trees and plantations. The Story of John G. Paton Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals
Then they explained that, owing to the breadfruit having been blown off the trees while still green, by a hurricane, there had been a famine in their village. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
They did no work except to grow a few yams, bananas, and breadfruit. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Shortly before noon, the boat rounded a low headland and entered a lovely little bay, embowered in thick groves of coco-palms and breadfruit trees. John Frewen, South Sea Whaler 1904
Artocarpus incisa.—This is the breadfruit tree of the South Sea Islands, where its introduction gave occasion for the historical incidents arising from the mutiny of the "Bounty." Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
His food-list now embraced shellfish and birds, wild yams, breadfruit, and cocoanuts, which, even the latter, he cooked before eating and prepared before cooking. "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea
On each side were the plantations of bananas, cocoanuts, and other tropic fruits, while scattered here and there among the brown thatched houses the breadfruit trees spread out their huge branches of shining green. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
In cultivating their little patches of bananas, breadfruit, cassava, and taro, however, they are pretty industrious. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Every now and then some of them would be running away—a breadfruit grove and plenty of fresh water would be attractions no kanaka ever born could resist. Edward Barry South Sea Pearler
Men and women, both, cut plantains and bananas and breadfruit, and scratched gardens with crooked sticks. Gold Seekers of '49
They do not pay us for our yams, and taro, and breadfruit. A Son Of The Sun
I can see the palms and the breadfruit, as well as the next man. We Three
So far as vegetation is concerned, the cocoa-palm and breadfruit are about the only kinds of plant life of importance. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
All around were thousands upon thousands of coco-palms, and further back were some hundreds of huge jack fruit trees—a species of breadfruit bearing fruit of irregular shape, and containing large seeds. Edward Barry South Sea Pearler
It was after the Bounty had taken in the breadfruit trees at Otaheite, and was advanced a short distance on the homeward voyage, that the events we are about to narrate occurred. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
He bought out the old blind leper at the market, and sold breadfruit, plantains, and sweet potatoes at such cut-rates that the gendarmes were called out to break the rush of bargain-hunting natives. A Son Of The Sun
Among other trees were guavas, bananas, mangoes, breadfruit palms, and two or three fern-trees. My First Voyage to Southern Seas
On the return journey northwards the dromedaries are laden with wares from the Sudan, rice, manioc, honey, nuts, monkey breadfruit, dried fish, ivory, ostrich feathers, india-rubber, leather, and many other things. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
When Robinson Crusoe was on his island all alone, eating breadfruit and entertaining himself by throwing stones at the monkeys, he perhaps had a good time, but he could not make any contracts. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
“If you don’t require my services,” said Brown, “I’ll go plant some breadfruits and other things at that sheltered spot we fell upon yesterday.” The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
No," said Pola, scornfully, adding, with a wave of his arm that took in acres of breadfruit trees, banana groves, and taro patches, "Why should I work? The Spinner's Book of Fiction
The fire was lighted, the leg of pork cut off and fixed to a tripod, the breadfruit toasted, and plates supplied by large palm leaves. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
So he went himself and climbed the breadfruit tree. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
Well, Bligh, as you know, took the Bounty out to the Islands under Government orders to collect breadfruit, the notion being that it could be planted in the West Indies and grown at a profit. The Mayor of Troy
After the others had done eating, he proposed that they should all go a little farther up into the bushes, where, he said, he had left his own wife among some breadfruit trees. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
Already the familiar perfume came floating over the waters—that sweet blending of many odors, of cocoanut-oil and baking breadfruit, of jessamine and gardenia. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
In front of them was a large breadfruit tree, and under its branches was a wild boar, engaged in eating the tender fruit which had fallen to the ground. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
He said to his two sons, "Go and climb the breadfruit trees and bring the fruit, that we may eat them together and not die." The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia
As he swings, I soaks him between the eyes with a ripe breadfruit, with the result that his aim's spoiled an' he misses. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
At night I served a few broken pieces of breadfruit for supper, and performed prayers. Great Sea Stories
The hurricane had blown off all the young nuts from the cocoanut palms and the fruit from the breadfruit trees, while the taro was not yet ripe. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
"That does not appear likely," answered Mont, thinking of the roast pork and the breadfruit. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean
The food of the islanders consists of fish, coconuts, taro, yams, and breadfruit, of which there is a plentiful supply. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century
It's a regular island, with palms an' breadfruit an' tamarinds an' mangoes an' such, fine an' fertile, fifteen miles around the middle, an' plenty o' water. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
At night, I served a quarter of a breadfruit and a cocoanut to each person for supper; and a good fire being made, all but the watch went to sleep. Great Sea Stories
In counting fish, and all kinds of fruit, except breadfruit, the scale begins with tauna, pair, and then, omitting onohuu, they employ the same words again, but in a modified sense. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
The breadfruit trees I have no doubt bear all the year round: we have seen a scarcity of breadfruit but have never been wholly without it. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
There was nothing but breadfruit trees here the first time I was marooned on it. Second Plays
Wax-palm trees, breadfruit trees, and rubber trees are found in these forests. Big People and Little People of Other Lands
Often the woman accompanied her man into the forests, assisting in the gathering of nuts and breadfruit, in the fishing and the building. White Shadows in the South Seas
For counting breadfruit they use pona, knot, as their unit, breadfruit usually being tied up in knots of four. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
I kept buying up the little breadfruit that was brought to us, and likewise some spears to arm my men with, having only four cutlasses, two of which were in the boat. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The natives were now coming up by dozens at a time, bringing with them, in great arm-loads, fallen cocoanuts and breadfruits, and branches of bananas, and large draggled clusters of half-ripe plantains. The Great Taboo
The native apples are as large as breadfruit. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
They had come to Indonesia rice-eaters, but there found the breadfruit, “which they took with them in their great migration into these Pacific islands two centuries and more after the beginning of this era.” White Shadows in the South Seas
Takau now takes its third signification, 40, and becomes the base of their breadfruit system, so to speak. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
At noon I served a coconut and a breadfruit to each person for dinner, and gave some to the chiefs, with whom I continued to appear intimate and friendly. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
If you sow the bread-fruit seed, you will reap the breadfruit. The Great Taboo
Kuapaa means literally "to harden the back" with oppressive work; it is applied to a breadfruit parched on the tree or to a rock that shows itself above water. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
It was barely daylight next morning when I awoke, a soft, delicious air stirring the breadfruit leaves. White Shadows in the South Seas
The next unit, mano, has in a similar manner been twisted out of its original sense, and in counting breadfruit is made to serve for 8000. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
I observed that no respect was shown to him at this place, nor was he able to procure a coconut or a breadfruit otherwise than by purchasing it. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
On arrival at Tahiti, she spent nearly five months in Matavai Bay loading the breadfruit plants. The Naval Pioneers of Australia
I had hopes of yams and breadfruit also, but if they grew on Leeward none of us had a speaking acquaintance with them. Spanish Doubloons
There was plenty of breadfruit now that there were few people. White Shadows in the South Seas
In the Hawaiian dialect this scale is, with slight modification, the universal scale, used not only in counting breadfruit, but any other objects as well. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
Here is also a sort of breadfruit tree that produces seeds not unlike Windsor beans and equally palatable either boiled or roasted. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Her mission was to convey breadfruit to the West Indian islands, the planters having represented to George III. that the introduction of the plant would be very beneficial as an article of food. The Naval Pioneers of Australia
In the canoes we saw abundance of sugarcane in pieces two feet in length and an inch in thickness, and the natives brought off to us bananas, breadfruit, mangoes, and prepared arrowroot. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1
A volunteer cocoanut grove, with trees of all ages Climbing for cocoanuts The grated breadfruit in the holes was called ma, and bore the same relation to popoi as dough bears to bread. White Shadows in the South Seas
Is it very hot there, and do you live on bananas and breadfruit? The Brown Study
A canoe also came in with four men and brought a few coconuts and breadfruit which I bought as I had done the rest. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
In the summer of 1791 he was promoted commander, given the command of the Providence, with an armed tender, the Assistance, and sent to carry out the breadfruit transplantation idea, which he satisfactorily accomplished. The Naval Pioneers of Australia
The agricultural sector is made up of cattle ranches and small   farms producing coconuts, breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. The 1993 CIA World Factbook
A dozen older women, skilled in grating the breadfruit for popoi making, awaited us there, squatting in a ring on the low platform. White Shadows in the South Seas
The road is at this point broad and fairly good, running between thick groves of cocoa-palm and breadfruit A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
A few coconuts were in the boat and some breadfruit, but the latter was trampled to pieces. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Agricultural     production is concentrated on small farms, and the most important commercial     crops are coconuts, tomatoes, melons, and breadfruit. The 1992 CIA World Factbook
Agricultural   production is concentrated on small farms, and the most important commercial   crops are coconuts, tomatoes, melons, and breadfruit. The 1993 CIA World Factbook
The sound of the wind and the rain in the breadfruit forest and the low roar of the torrent became only part of the silence in which those invisible presences crept and rustled. White Shadows in the South Seas
Once, in their walks, they spied a breadfruit tree bearing in the garden of an English merchant, ran back to the prison to get a shilling, and came and offered to purchase.  A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
A breadfruit of Timor weighs half as much more as one of equal size at Otaheite. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The agricultural     sector is made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts,     breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. The 1992 CIA World Factbook
The breadfruit varies in size, according to age, and in colour according to season. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
They pass mute, falling like the breadfruit in their dark groves. White Shadows in the South Seas
To the west, a swift cold river ran down, and beyond was the green of the village, dotted with cocoa-palms and breadfruits and houses.  Island Nights' Entertainments
The breadfruit tree, called by the Malays soccoom, likewise grows here with great luxuriance and appears to be as much a native of this island as it is of Otaheite. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The agricultural sector is   made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts,   breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons. The 1994 CIA World Factbook
It was breezing up from the south-west, and banyan and cocoa-palm, artu and breadfruit tree, swayed and rocked in the merry wind. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
It was a breadfruit season away from Atuona, at the very least. White Shadows in the South Seas
There were highly-finished coloured drawings of the dried fish and the breadfruit, and an exquisitely tinted representation of the latter in a mouldy state. The Voyage of Captain Popanilla
The breadfruit plants died to the root and sprouted afresh from thence. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Agricultural   production is concentrated on small farms, and the most important   commercial crops are coconuts, tomatoes, melons, and breadfruit. The 1994 CIA World Factbook
Beyond lay waving chapparel, where cocoa-palms and breadfruit trees intermixed with the mammee apple and the tendrils of the wild vine. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
The Hapaas were none too pleasant to the whites, and had to be forced by threats to bringing and cooking hogs and breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
After a plentiful dinner of venison, berries and breadfruit, they loaded the machine. Darkness and Dawn
This present consisted of five hogs, and forty-eight baskets filled with breadfruit, coconuts, tarro, and different kinds of puddings. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Two male Tahitians were persuaded to accompany the expedition, with a view to their exhibition before the Royal Society, in England, when at length, laden with 600 breadfruit trees, it sailed for the West Indies. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
On the edge of the green sward, between a diamond-chequered artu trunk and the massive bole of a breadfruit, a house had come into being. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
P�re Olivier apologized for the meager fare, but we did well enough, with soup and a tin of boiled beef, breadfruit, and feis. White Shadows in the South Seas
As they put their supplies of fish, squirrel-meat and breadfruit aboard the banca and shoved the rude craft off the sand, both she and he felt like children on an outing. Darkness and Dawn
The number of breadfruit plants were 1015, besides which we had collected a number of other plants. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Three hundred breadfruit trees were landed at that island, and a like number taken to Jamaica. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
Sitting on the grass by the doorway, sheltered by the breadfruit shade, yet with the hot rays of the afternoon sun just touching her naked feet, was a girl. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
My hearers screamed in an agony of delight, and others dwelling far away, or passing laden with breadfruit and bananas, gathered while I chortled and leaped, and made the mountain-side ring with Marquesan bravos. White Shadows in the South Seas
And look at the new varieties of flowers--and the breadfruit, or whatever it is, growing on the banks of the Hudson in the early part of June! Darkness and Dawn
I took Nelson with me to procure some breadfruit plants, one of our stock being dead and two or three others a little sickly. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The breadfruit, as we call it, grows on a large tree as big and as tall as our largest apple trees. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
He found melons and guavas, and breadfruit, the red apple of Tahiti, and the great Brazilian plum, taro in plenty, and a dozen other good things—but there were no bananas. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
The yams, potatoes, breadfruit, and other accompaniments of the dog, pig, and chicken were all ready at six o'clock, when cries of delight summoned us idlers. White Shadows in the South Seas
And after that he sought and found with no great labor a tree of the same species of breadfruit that grew all about their bungalow on the Hudson. Darkness and Dawn
At night I served a quarter of a breadfruit and a coconut to each person for supper and, a good fire being made, all but the watch went to sleep. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
To him, naturally, the first taste of breadfruit was pleasing. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
The fire was soon sparkling and crackling, and he heaped on sticks in profusion, for there was plenty of fuel, and he wanted to cook breadfruit. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
So, a breadfruit season ago, had Aumia coughed for the first time, and the way she was going would be followed by many of my neighbors. White Shadows in the South Seas
There's nothing definite or certain about anything now, except that we're both alive, without a thing to help us but our wits and that I'm starving for something more substantial than that breadfruit!” Darkness and Dawn
Being desirous to see the ship I took him and his companions below and showed them the breadfruit and other plants, at seeing which they were greatly surprised. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Notwithstanding the failure of the Bounty expedition, Sir Joseph Banks pressed upon the Government the desirableness of transplanting breadfruit trees to the West Indies. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
He cooked some breadfruit, there was some cold fish left over from the day before; this, with some bananas, he served up on two broad leaves, making Emmeline eat first. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
He brought an axe from a man who was dubbing out a canoe from a breadfruit log, and hacked away a chip for me. White Shadows in the South Seas
What with the breadfruit, smoked steer and buffalo meat, hams and canned goods now on our shelves, we've certainly got enough supplies to stock her a two months' trip. Darkness and Dawn
Her servants then produced three pieces of cloth which, with a large hog, some breadfruit, plantains, and coconuts, she had brought as a present. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The immense popularity of Cook's voyages spread afar the fame of breadfruit as an article of food. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
The breadfruit tree was barren of fruit, as these trees sometimes are, whole groves of them ceasing to bear for some mysterious reason only known to Nature. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
The bananas were few, and the breadfruit were not plentiful. White Shadows in the South Seas
Then I bore my fainting burden to the dry sands and revived her with cocoanut milk and breadfruit, while the natives crowded respectfully about and made us their king and queen on the spot. The Boss of Little Arcady
Some of the natives were coming and going the whole afternoon, and we got enough of breadfruit, plantains, and coconuts for another day; but of water they only brought us about five pints. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Flinders was with Bligh, peacefully landing breadfruit trees in the West Indies, when this momentous opening of a twenty-two years' conflict occurred. The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
It might have been said to have a double roof, for the breadfruit foliage above gave good shelter during the rains. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
They had clearings with cocoanuts and breadfruit, but they cared no longer to cultivate them, preferring rather to sit sadly in the curling fumes and dream of the past. White Shadows in the South Seas
Freely for him the palm, the date, the banana, the breadfruit tree, the pine, spread out a harvest on the air; and pleasant apple, plum, or peach solicit his ready hand. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
I endeavoured to make friends of these people and sent them away for breadfruit, plantains, and water. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Cocoanuts, bananas, yams, sweet potatoes, kalo, and breadfruit, the staple food of the native population, are free from blight, and so are potatoes and rice.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
As the morning wore on the darkness increased; a breeze rose up, and the leaves of the breadfruit trees pattered together with the sound of rain falling upon glass. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
His duties would be to help in conveying my luggage ashore, to aid me in the mysteries of cooking breadfruit and such other edibles as I might discover, and to converse with me in Marquesan. White Shadows in the South Seas
While her shrine was building she is said to have appeared to the faithful in the top of a large breadfruit tree, which is known to the Tagalogs as “antipolo”; hence her name. The Social Cancer
Served a few broken pieces of breadfruit for supper and performed prayers. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
And beyond the reef and beyond the blue, nestling among cocoanut trees and bananas, umbrella trees and breadfruits, oranges, mangoes, hibiscus, algaroba, and passion-flowers, almost hidden in the deep, dense greenery, was Honolulu.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
In a second the house was torn away, and they were clinging to the roots of the breadfruit, deaf, blinded, half-lifeless. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
Garbed in brilliant yellow pareu, he bore on his shoulders an immense kooka, or basket of cocoanut fiber, filled with quite two hundred pounds of breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
A mighty roar followed the unveiling, a shout of such force that tons of breadfruit and thousands of cocoanuts fell from the adjacent trees. The Cruise of the Kawa
I must not forget to mention that they had placed near the pole an offering of plantains and breadfruit, which they left for the Eatua. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Under thick canopies of the glossy breadfruit and banana, groups of natives were twining garlands of roses and ohia blossoms.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
Then through the leaves of the artu would come a sigh, and the leaves of the breadfruit would patter, and the sound of the reef become faint. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
A walk in the jungle; the old woman in the breadfruit tree; a night in a native hut on the mountain. White Shadows in the South Seas
It is a real tropic forest, palms and bananas, breadfruit trees, bamboos, lofty ceibas, and gorgeous butterflies and brilliant colored birds fluttering among the orchids. Letters to His Children
They said that there were no hogs, dogs, or goats upon the island, nor had they yams, or tarro; but that plantains, coconuts, fowls, breadfruit, and avees, were there in great abundance. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The full moon hung over the enclosing palis, gleaming on coffee and breadfruit groves, and on the surface of the river, which was just quivering under a soft sea breeze.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
The breadfruit leaves had turned from green to pale gold and darkest amber, and now the new green leaves were being presented to the spring. The Blue Lagoon: a romance
The hour of sleep had passed, and squatted before the troughs men and women mashed the ma for the popoi, or idled on the platform in red and yellow pareus, watching the roasting breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
Agricultural production is primarily subsistence and is concentrated on small farms; the most important commercial crops are coconuts and breadfruit. The 2002 CIA World Factbook
I had given directions to everyone on board not to make known to the islanders the purpose of our coming lest it might enhance the value of the breadfruit plants, or occasion other difficulties. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
It is usually made of the erythrina, or the breadfruit tree.  The Hawaiian Archipelago
The breadfruit grows on a spreading tree about the size of a large apple tree; the fruit is round, and has a thick, tough rind. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism
A breadfruit weighs from two to eight pounds, and giants like Great Fern or Haabuani carried in the kookas two or three hundred pounds for miles on the steep and rocky trails. White Shadows in the South Seas
Can't you lead me to a banana vine or a breadfruit bakery? The Ne'er-Do-Well
"Yes," he said, "I will send him anything I have;" and then began to enumerate the different articles in his power, among which he mentioned the breadfruit. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Down comes the Kanaka with his spear gang and routs 'em out and sets 'em to gathering breadfruit all day in the hot sun. Cape Cod Stories
We took him to Po-Po's, and gave him a dinner of baked pig and breadfruit; with pipes and tobacco for dessert. Omoo
There was a time when each grove of breadfruit had its owners, who guarded it for their own use, and even each tree had its allotted proprietor, or perhaps several. White Shadows in the South Seas
And breadfruit, ripe and well boiled or roasted! The Cruise of the Snark
On arriving at the landing-place I saw a large quantity of breadfruit with some hogs ready dressed and a quantity of cloth. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
When our breadfruit harvesting was done, we took to the trail to complete this "dry–land dinner." Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Here we lounged at our ease, eating baked pig and breadfruit off earthen plates, and using, for the first time in many a long month, real knives and forks. Omoo
Gripping a branch firmly with these hand-like feet, Great Fern wielded the omei, bringing down other breadfruit one by one, taking great care not to bruise them. White Shadows in the South Seas
We rode through the same abandoned pae-paes, but as we neared the sea we found a profusion of cocoanuts, breadfruit trees and taro patches, and fully a dozen grass dwellings. The Cruise of the Snark
It is true indeed that the breadfruit is not always in season; but coconuts, bananas, plantains, and a great variety of other fruits supply the deficiency. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
I mean the breadfruit tree, which is quite abundant on Gueboroa Island, and there I chiefly noted the seedless variety that in Malaysia is called "rima." Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
All savoury, it lay in a wooden trencher, surrounded by roasted hemispheres of the breadfruit. Omoo
She wore it as her only garment, and through the wide meshes of the novel lace appeared her skin, of the tint of the fresh-cooked breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
Where were the hundred groves of the breadfruit tree he saw? The Cruise of the Snark
We then went across the beach and through a walk delightfully shaded with breadfruit trees to his own house. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
"Sir," he told me, "I'll die if I don't sample a little breadfruit pasta!" Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
In the same way, the "Opio," or festive harvest-home of the breadfruit, has been suppressed; though, as described to me by Captain Bob, it seemed wholly free from any immoral tendency. Omoo
Specially among peoples whose principal diet is heavy, starchy food, such as the breadfruit, the demand for meat is keen. White Shadows in the South Seas
And it was Kila's own son, Kahai, who made that same journey, and was gone ten years, and brought back with him from Tahiti the first breadfruit trees that sprouted and grew on Hawaiian soil.' On the Makaloa Mat
The chiefs went off with me to dinner, and I found a brisk trade carrying on at the ship for yams; some plantains and breadfruit were likewise brought on board but no hogs. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
"When I've mixed this honey with our breadfruit batter," he told us, "I'll be ready to serve you a delectable piece of cake." Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
A year or two after his landing there happened to be a season of scarcity, owing to the partial failure of the breadfruit harvest for several consecutive seasons. Omoo
In the dark silence, with no wind to rustle the breadfruit and cocoanut-trees, and only the brook faintly murmuring below, I heard a low babble of voices. White Shadows in the South Seas
The time of the breadfruit and the mango ever recurs, and man and woman repeat themselves. On the Makaloa Mat
Our collection of breadfruit plants at the tents continued increasing. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Here the gross temporal necessities are satisfied with a breadfruit, a roasted fish, and a few pandanus flowers. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody
In truth they lived mostly upon breadfruit and other products of the wild trees. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
The canoe that had sounded the conch off Oomoa was lying on the shale, and those who had come in it were on the stones cooking breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
Bananas, plantains, and breadfruit lay rotting on the ground.  Jerry of the Islands
This part of our journey was through a delightful country, well covered with breadfruit and coconut-trees, and strewed with houses in which were swarms of children. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The breadfruit trees are planted, and flourish with great luxuriance, on rising grounds. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The breadfruit trees thrive in these islands, not in such abundance, but produce double the quantity of fruit they do on the rich plains of Otaheite. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
The fermented breadfruit wrapped in banana-leaves, the pig dug from the pit that morning and packed in sections of bamboo, the calabashes of river water, the bananas and drinking nuts, were all in place. White Shadows in the South Seas
There a banana tree had been despoiled of its clustered fruit; and, beyond, it was evident that a similar event had happened to a breadfruit tree.  Jerry of the Islands
The natives reckon eight kinds of the breadfruit tree, each of which they distinguish by a different name. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
We were supplied with coconuts in great abundance but breadfruit was scarce. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Of the many vegetables that have been mentioned already as serving them for food, the principal is the breadfruit, to procure which costs them no trouble or labour but climbing a tree. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Pig and popoi, shark sweetbreads, roasted breadfruit and sweet potatoes, fruits and cocoanut-milk leaped from the broad leaf platters to wide-open mouths. White Shadows in the South Seas
Coconut palms, banana trees, and lofty breadfruit trees gave food and sun-shelter.  Jerry of the Islands
In this division they keep a small interval called Tawa in which they do not use the breadfruit. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
To vomit during the fortnight occupied in the task of conserving the breadfruit brought grave suspicion that the unfortunate had broken the tapu. White Shadows in the South Seas
These fruits were the breadfruit and the horse-chestnut, neither of which is a native of Polynesia. White Shadows in the South Seas
Now and then we came into a cleared space, a native plantation, a hut surrounded by breadfruit-, mango- and cocoanut-, orange- and lime-trees. White Shadows in the South Seas
Overhead three breadfruit trees interlaced their noble branches.  Jerry of the Islands
The breadfruit trees and coconut trees at this time were full of fruit. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
Working in this fashion, Great Fern and his neighbors carried down to the popoi pit perhaps four hundred breadfruit daily, piling them there to be prepared by the women. White Shadows in the South Seas
A Tahitian legend of the origin of the breadfruit recounts that in ancient times the people subsisted on araea, red earth. White Shadows in the South Seas
Filling the popoi pits in the season of the breadfruit; legend of the mei; the secret festival in a hidden valley. White Shadows in the South Seas
When I awoke next morning Exploding Eggs was preparing my breakfast as usual, the sunlight streamed over breadfruit and palm, and the night seemed a dream. White Shadows in the South Seas
His brother Oreepyah sent on board to me a present of a large hog and a quantity of breadfruit: but these kind of presents are much more expensive than purchasing at the market. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
I saw that it was a breadfruit and that I was under the greatest tree of that variety I had ever seen, a hundred feet high and spreading like a giant oak. White Shadows in the South Seas
Along it, a hundred feet or so from the river, were houses sparsely scattered in the almost continuous forest of cocoanut and breadfruit. White Shadows in the South Seas
In this season of plenteous breadfruit, therefore, Great Fern had opened his popoi pit, and was replenishing its supply. White Shadows in the South Seas
There was no match to light the fire for roasting breadfruit, or to kindle the solacing tobacco. White Shadows in the South Seas
The ship was crowded the whole day with the natives, and we were loaded with coconuts, plantains, breadfruit, hogs, and goats. A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship
There was no breadfruit, for it will live only where man is there to tend it, and in all the extent of the tableland there was no human being or sign of habitation. White Shadows in the South Seas
They lived in a spacious house set in three acres of breadfruit and cocoanuts, an ancient grove long in their family. White Shadows in the South Seas
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