The National tribune., 1890-11-06

! excellent thin bread like Scotch oaten cake,
but much more agreeable TO the palate
The mangO-tree bears fruit that for four
months affords abundant and nutritious food
for man and the domestic animals, as the
tree grows wild everywhere.
! The bread fruit is also much depended
on. 1t is about the size Of cocoanut, aud
is covered with a green rind, divided into
/ hexagons like the cocoanut. II has to be
kept for couple of days after being pulled
and is then baked, whole, in an oven, after
which it is cut up in slices and toasted for
breakfast, aud is sweet, agreeable and fari-
naceons. and forms a good substitute for
warm bread.
1t is said thu the yam is good substitute
| for the potato which cannot be raised TO
any advantage IA ihc West Indies, and de-
Gays in very short time after being i'm
ported TINS making the price range from 81
! TO 81 per bushel, according 10 whether the
port is Havana, Progreso or Maracaibo; but
] cannot see the resemblance, or feel that
the yam is a substitute for the potato. The
/ yam is generally about the size of coffee
/ pot, and all red OF yellow and knobby. When
boiled it breaks up dry in rnealy mass
and is very good eating when you get used
| TO il.
! Fried plantains or bananas are very nice,
| but the
sTRAEGEsT DISH
/ is the avocado pear, which is a substitute
( for hen-fruit," go dinicnlt TO keep in a warm
( climate. This fruit or vegetable, il about
I the size Of cocoanut, and has thick, rough
/ hide-not n shell. Cutting it in half. stone
or seed as large as a walnut is found at the
core, which is taken ont. The rough skin is
then peeled off the halves. and they are
mixed up with salt. pepper, aud little
mustard, if preferred. 1t is impossible TO
detect the difference between them and
scrambled eggs, cold.
But when il comes TO fruits-yum, yum
/ Oh, it so is very pleasant to 20 to an orange
tree in the early morning, when the thou
sands Of brlght-plumaged and sweet voiced
birds are welcoming the sunrise There
you take your choice Of fruit and make u
delicious and healthy lunch, adding few
bananas If you wish. But there are also
shaddoeks, forbidden-fruit, sour-sops, sugar
apples, sapodillas, belle-apples, mammee
apples, lemons, lines and other kinds OF
fruit.
The cocoa palm grows in groves, when
planted, bears the cocoanut, and IL tall, fine
tree. The cocoa tree is also cultivated for
the mt or berry from which chocolate aud
cocoa are made, and is a pretty tree, but not
tall palm like the nut tree The cocoa
tree Is generally spelled cacao" in the West
Indies, and so pronounced, and by this means
heconGusion attendant On twodiAerent trees
having The same name is avoided The date
palm and acacia aud allspice trees are also
cultivated. The latter is a pretty tree, with
a lofty gray trunk and dark green, fragrant
leaf
All the bays and inlets, as well as creek,
and rivers, abound with fish. The shore,
are lined nearly all around the island with
madrepose, or
WHITE CORAL,
and this renders the waters go clear tha
you can distinguish bottom at 20 or even 81
feet, and see the fnny wanderers who, fo
variety Of kinds and brightness Of colors
} exceed anything that i ever heard Of before
There you will see the barracoota, "A nobl.
! fish, very much like pike, and oftimes a
5 vOracioas as q shark, AN occasional one 0
3 whom will Git past your vision.
: The dolphin is there, Of bright azure color
! with dark spots The grunt has alternat
lines Of yellow and purple; the goat is pinl
, and silver, while the doctor is the color o
I Furnished copper. The Welshman in pink
e / with yellow stripes the hind white, will
red and brown spots, while the king fish, th
2. rock, the parrot, the silk fish, the blare-ey
e and the Spanish hog all lend their colors 4
7 the brilliant submarine procession.
1 Seen in market, these make beautfu
contrast 10 the equally as brilliant fruit
!, and flowers. Then, there is the Jew fish
g which is 10 these waters as the halibut q
= our northeast coast; the whip ray, shape,
d like founder, but with tail like coach
mans whip-s0metimes 10 feet long, wit
little stings on the side TO warm up a boo
7 sailor, from which they call it stingaree," 0
: stinging ray.
! We find also the bluelsh, the yelIow-taile,
q snapper, the catfish, the groapa, striped snap