The Durian is most esteemed; yet the Jack is very pleasant Fruit, and the Stones or Kernels are good roasted.
But the inside is different; for the Fruit of the Durian is white, that of the Jack is yellow, and fuller of Stones.
The Dyaks of the Sarawak river in Borneo esteem the durian above all other fruit, eat it unripe both cooked and raw, and salt the pulp for use as a relish with rice.
To my knowledge the durian is not subject to any malady which might effect the annual quantity of fruit to be gathered, this depending entirely upon whether the wind has blown violently, or not, during the time it was in flower.
If one were treating of berries or nuts this would not be so remarkable but each fruit of the durian weighs about two kilograms and is as large as a child's head.
The outside of the durian is ligneous and is covered with strong prickles of nearly an inch long.
The smell of the durian is so unpleasant that the fruit is never seen on the tables of the merchants or planters; it is eaten slily in corners, and out of doors.
The people in the house heard the sound and said," There's a durian falling.
An example of a star design termed USONG DIAN, durian pattern, is shown in Pl.
When nothing else could make Baboo forget the effects of the green durian he had eaten, Aboo Din would take the child on his knees and sing to him of his trip to Mecca, in a quaint, monotonous voice, full of sorrowful quavers.
He pointed to the twisted, snake-like root of an enormous durian which, emerging from the earth, had shot out over the water for all the world like the branches higher up.
Throwing themselves down upon the long and twisted root of a durian which stood above the surface of the water, they sat there panting with their exertions, and listening eagerly for sounds of the Malays.
In the neighbourhood the old durian trees of Java betoken the presence of a Malay population at a date long prior to the advent of the Chinese miner.
When a durian fell to the ground with a great thud, they all jumped up to look for it, as the fallen fruit belongs to the finder, and they loved it so that they willingly sacrificed their sleep for it.
I never felt unsafe on my Dyak friend's back, and he used to laugh when I proposed his setting me down and taking a rest, and say, "You are not as heavy as a basket of durian fruit.
With a very bad grace it hobbled off to the Durian tree, ascended it with a sort of lazy, lumbering facility, and hurled down some of the fruit without warning those below to look out.
I hope we shall be successful," said Nigel, helping himself to some more of what may be styled Durian cream.
Besides, it had brought a Durian fruit to the banks of the stream and thrown it down, so that either taste or eccentricity must have induced it to prefer the shoots.
It picked up the Durian which lay there and began to devour it.
It was a ripe Durian which had fallen from an immense height and missed him by a hairbreadth.
Ve vill have a Durian to refresh us, ant here is a handy tree which seems to have ripe vones on it.
Dullah say you throw durian again in his face, and it make him mad.
The Kling raised his hands in dismay; but leaning over the side, he secured the two pieces of durian before they were out of reach, and turned to his customers.
The real durian is not indigenous to Ceylon, but was brought there by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century.
Over the back of his right hand, toward the knuckles, he had a zigzag mark representing the excrescences of the durian fruit.
I put up my tent under a large durian tree, which was then in bloom.
Fruits, as the durian and langsat, are rather scarce.
Lulo Pakko, Merasi River A ripe durianopened Three Long-Glat women of the nobility.
According to the natives these trees are plentiful in the utan, but in the kampong they, as well as the famous durian and the rambutan, have been raised from seed.
This was the season for the durian fruit and we much enjoyed this delicacy, of which Mr. A.
Nobody knows what a durianis like until he eats one that has been permitted to ripen and fall to the ground.
He landed in a durian tree, near a small house covered with the tail feathers of the hornbill.
The kapala whom I saw at Long Kai had the mark of a ripe durian on each shoulder in front and an immature one above each nipple.
The durian is intensely appreciated by the natives, and tatu marks representing the fruit are strikingly prominent in Central Borneo.
The durian seeds, when roasted, make an excellent substitute for chestnuts.
The durian is a favourite fruit with most people who can overcome its smell, which certainly is no very easy matter.
Who will eat of the fruit of the one durian which I have nurtured so carefully and fostered so fondly?
The seed of the durian is roughly cordate, about an inch and a quarter long.
Rash and vain though it be, I am in such holiday humour in respect of the sweet anticipation of the durian that I cannot refrain from an attempt to chant the praises of the "little lower" fruit.
If this is true, then eating a durian must, in its way, be something like having a tub.
Wallace says that to eat a durian is a new sensation, worth a voyage to the East to experience.
On the fourth day, however, we found a Mias feeding on a very lofty Durian tree, and succeeded in killing it, after eight shots.
The mountain or hill was close by, covered with a complete forest of fruit-trees, among which the Durian and Mangusteen were very abundant; but the fruit was not yet quite ripe, except a little here and there.
If I had to fix on two only, as representing the perfection of the two classes, I should certainly choose the Durian and the Orange as the king and queen of fruits.
This was my own case when I first tried it in Malacca, but in Borneo I found a ripe fruit on the ground, and, eating it out of doors, I at once became a confirmed Durian eater.
The Durian grows on a large and lofty forest tree, somewhat resembling an elm in its general character, but with a more smooth and scaly bark.
In ascending Durian and other fruit trees which branch at from thirty to fifty feet from the ground, I have seen them use the Bamboo pegs only, without the upright Bamboo which renders them so much more secure.
The Durian is an especial favourite, and quantities of this delicious fruit are destroyed wherever it grows surrounded by forest, but they will not cross clearings to get at them.
A Dyak chief informed me that he had been struck down by a Durian falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered in a very short time.
These durians are not to be surpassed-- Ta’ lawan-lah buahdurian ini.
Ve vill have a Durianto refresh us, ant here is a bandy tree which seems to have ripe vones on it.
While the boy was arranging their meal, Verkimier drew a heavy hunting-knife from his belt and applying it with an unusually strong hand to the Durian laid it open.
The durian (Durio zibethinus) is also peculiar to the Malayan countries.
Marched in a south direction and crossed Ayer Tubbu, passing a number of durian trees on its bank.
In appearance the durian is green and prickly, about the size of a small melon, and even through the tough outside rind one can notice a faint nauseating odour.
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