The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-06

dred varieties. makes up for the def
CLERGY. Mrs. Scidmore, in her book on
AaVa, is authority for the sta emcnt
that 1900 pounds Of banana viii grow
on the space required to produce 80
pounds of either potatoes or So pounds
of wheat; if her calculation is correct
and the ratio of prOductiveness is any
thing like the same in the case of other
fruit, one can understand why the prob
lem of living is SO simpIffied in warm
/ countries
A fruit closely allied to our grape
fruit is found here. a variety of VIII Oh
grows in China and Japan. The pa
paya, which we first tasted in Honolulu.
the mango, whose season had passed
in the Philippines, the sour Manila, and
the DURAN are all to be bought In the
market here. The last named fruit has
succeeded i'm arraying into ardent
friends and unsparing critics the tour
lists who have ventured to eat IL. Some
declare that il is delicious while 9TH
ers cannot bear the taste. and all agree
that the odor is exceedingly Tepulsive.
1t is rough-skinned, very large. some
times weighing ten or fifteen pounds.
and resembles in appearance both the
bread fruit and the nangka.
Among the fruits which we have
| tasted for the first time the mango
steen and the rambutan are rivals in
popularity. The first is a deiicately
white, encased i'm a thick hull Of deep
red. 1t meltS in the mouth and leaves
memory of mingled fiaVOrs. Its fame
has spread abroad, and there was for
years n standing offer of $50 TO any
one who would put Queen Victoria in
possession of a ripe mangosteen, but
it decays so quickly that not even ice
will preserve it during a long sea
voyage. The rambutan has not received
as much praise as the man gosteen, but
I Huf t.
tinuous use. The word rambutan
means hairy and the name was given
to this fruit because it has a covering
something like a chestnut burr. except
that the so-caIIed hairs are soft in
stead of spike-like. There is a variety
of the rambutan which has a smoother
covering, without the hair-like projec-
items and this is very appropriately
called the kapoelassen (Which means
| bald) rambutan. The usual covering
is a bright crimson, but there are sew
| eral different shades, and the trees pre-
sent a very attractive appearance
when ladened with ripe fruit. The pulp
/ of the rambutan resembles a pigeons
/ egg i'm size and shape and contains a
single seed. The flavor Is half tart and
| half sweet, and recalls all the good
| things one has ever tasted.
| Another japanese fruit is the doekoe
which on the outside looks like an
| apricot, but it divided into sections like
an orange and has a taste peculiarly
! its own. The lambda. or Java apple is
| oonical in shape and has a white. waxy
appearance. But enough has been said
/ to indicate the variety of fruits ex-
/ posed for sale on the street and ped
/ died at railway stations. The natives
usually carry an assortment of fruit as
/ they go to or return from market and
| the floor of the third-class railroad
| coaches is always Uttered with rinds
and Feelings. Verify, one can revel in
fruits to his hearts content in Java.
! One of the most interesting days that
we spent in Java was devoted to a trip
| to Boro Boedoer, the great Hindu tenn
pie near Djokjakarta. Leaving the
through train at this station with the
/ jaw-breaking name, we went by tram
| line about twenty miles, and then
drove six miles further. Near the
/ temple the road crosses a ferry, the
/ substantial bridge which once spanned
! the river there having been swept
away. and when we reached this point
we found the stream so swollen by re-
| cent rains that the natives were not
/ willing to risk their boats IN the angry
flood We returned to the tramway
! station and spent the night in the hos
pitable home of the Dutch Station mas
! ter, the only white man in the town
/ Returning to the river early the next
| morning, we found that the waters had
sufficiently subsidized to enable us to
cross, and we reached Boro Boedoer
| while yet the sun was low. And what
monument is BOro Boedoer to the
zeal of the Buddhist priests, the skill
of the Hindu architect and the patient
! industry of the Javanese! AS a temple
/ 1T is not surpassed, in labor expended
upon it's construction It is COMPARABLE
with the pyramids. and in artistic skin
! displayed In design and execution n is
even superior to them
According to archaeologfsts. if was
| built about 1,200 years ago, when the
Javanese were worshipers of Ruddhs
/ but the invasion of the Mohamnedans
| of the fifteenth century was so com
plete that that stupendous pile was
/ first neglected. then deserted and ar
| last forgotten. It was so overgrovvn
j with trees and shrubbery that the
Dutch traders were in the country FOR
| two centuries before its presence was
| discovered When # was found and
unearthed during the occupancy of the
English during Sir Stamford Raffies in
| 1914, the people living in the Vicinity
were as much surprised as the for
| eigners, for all tradition of its existence
had been lost. This seems hardly pos