Joseph Banks - Endeavour journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0155
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Rio de Janeiro
turpentine which I am told is not found in the ripe ones Bananas are in shape & size like a small thick sausage coverd with a thick yellow rind which is peeld off & the fruit within is of a consistence which might be expected from a mixture of Butter & flour but a little Slimey its taste is sweet with a little perfume Acajou or casshou is shapd like an apple but larger the taste very disagreabe sourish & bitter the nut grows at the top of them Plantanes differ from these in being longer & thinner & having less lusciousness in their taste both these fruits were disagreable to most of our people but after some use I became tolerably fond of them Mamme apples are bigger than a Codlin in England Coverd with a deep yellow skin the pulp on the inside is very insipid or rather disagreable to the taste & full of small round seeds coverd with a thick mucilage which continualy Cloy your mouth Jamboira is the same as I saw at Madeira a fruit