Very large bananas or plantains are boiled with codfish, with daubes, or meat stews, and with eggs.
Bananas and plantains hold the first place among fruits in popular esteem;--they are cooked in every way, and served with almost every sort of meat or fish.
Probably each man had eaten 140 plantains during the three days.
What with boiled, roasted plantains and porridge, they must have consumed an immense number.
For those unwilling or unable to follow us to the plantains we could do nothing.
Some plantains measured here were seventeen and a half inches in length, and as thick as the fore-arm.
The plantain groves were extensive and laden with fruit, and especially with ripe mellow plantains whose fragrance was delicious.
In the afternoon it returned, bringing several days' supply ofplantains with a few goats and fowls, and for the first time we were able to make soup and distribute meat to the Banalya sick.
When food was really required, which was once in five days, a foraging party would be sent to cut plantains in such abundance that they sufficed for several days, and twelve hours' drying over a fire rendered the provisions portable.
The plantains were not very large, but they were mature and full, and before an hour had elapsed, the wooden grates were up, and the fruit lay in heaps of slices on the bars over the fire.
But we had no time for talk; we ate a couple of roast plantains for lunch, and continued our journey, and by 3 P.
Madame Garcia moved heavily about the kitchen, putting the plantains in a cool spot and punctuating her foot-steps with sundry "Mon Dieux" and "Miseres.
Plantains and sugar-canes are by no means in plenty.
Cocoa-nuts and plantains were what we got the most of; the latter, together with a few yams and other roots, were to us a succedaneum for bread.
Their cocoa-nut trees, I am certain, are not; and their bread-fruit and plantains did not seem much better.
We were made to sit down a few paces short of the chief, and our plantains were then taken from us, and, one by one, laid before him, as the others had been laid before us.
Plantains and papaw trees are grouped together with groves of arborescent fern; and this mixture of wild and cultivated plants gives the place a peculiar charm.
The great plantains are brought to the market of Caracas from the haciendas of Turiamo, situated on the coast between Burburata and Porto Cabello.
The possession of a very strong ass, able to carry a heavy load of plantains to the embarcadero, was the consummation of all his wishes.
Although the villages we passed were deserted, the character of the country proved that at some time in the past both plantains and a sort of yam had been raised in abundance, which led me to believe we could get what we wanted.
The food that was prepared for him was five rolls made of boiled plantains mashed into a kind of pudding called "nkima," and tied up with dried fish.
One who brought for sale a bunch of plantains twisted off and took away one of its "fingers.
The rind does not readily peel off from unripe plantains and bananas; a knife is generally used.
Well, then, I will bring her; and you take her off there among the plantains by yourself, and see what she will say.
I have seen in those sacred huts a dish of boiled plantains (often by foreigners miscalled "bananas") or a plate of fish.
Our friends had brought a supply of plantainsand several other things--manioc, sugar-cane, and squashes.
A liberal portion was brought to us in a basket, but as the meat was already tainted, we preferred breakfasting on the plantains sprinkled with red pepper.
The trees stood about five feet apart, and the bunches of plantains which each tree produced weighed from thirty to fifty pounds, those from some of the larger trees much more.
We thought the boiled plantains were rather insipid, until Shimbo produced a bag full of cayenne pepper, with which he sprinkled them as he hooked them out of the pot, and placed them on some broad leaves to serve as plates.
We were tired and glad to take the supper which was brought to us already cooked, and consisted of plantains dressed in a variety of ways, and venison, one dish roasted and another stewed in lemon juice.
Next morning at daybreak the whole camp was roused up by King Sanga Tanga, and the cooks set to work to dress the plantains which they had brought with them, and the elephant-meat which they had captured.
But that's not to the point at present, what we want now are some plantains and milk, or venison.
We invited Iguma to take some breakfast; she, pointing to some plantains and roast yams, signified that they would satisfy her hunger.
The banks of the Rio Estevan have been less insalubrious since little plantations of maize and plantains have been established; and, by raising and hardening the ground, the river has been confined within narrower limits.
It is eaten like plantains or potatoes, boiled or roasted in the ashes, and affords a wholesome and agreeable aliment.
These natives cultivate plantains and cassava, but no maize.
A little cassava and a few plantains only are cultivated; and when the fishery is not abundant, the natives of a country so favoured by nature are exposed to the most cruel privations.
The produce of the bread-fruit tree can no more be considered as bread than plantains before the state of maturity, or the tuberous and amylaceous roots of the cassava, the dioscorea, the Convolvulus batatas, and the potato.
Though devoured by mosquitos, and often in want of plantains and cassava, yet I have found envious people even in this country!
I never saw plantains of so large a size as these: and indigo, sugar, and cacao might be produced in abundance, if any trouble were taken for their cultivation.
Setting apart the time which we spent on the shore in preparing the rice and plantains that served us for food, we took but thirty-five hours in going from Esmeralda to Santa Barbara.
Bananas, plantains and other fruits grow wild and may be had for the picking.
Bananas and plantains are two of the important food products.
Almost every house has a garden with its bamboos, plantains and cocoa-nut trees, and some with a greater variety of fruits.
The fruit is said to be edible, but I am not aware of ever having seen it introduced, nor would it be likely to compete with the best of the delicious plantains which the Philippines produce.
The natives use it as a seasoning in their cookery, stuffing fish and plantains with it and so on, using it also in the preparation of a sort of sea-pie they make with meat and fish.
Then the child is hastily smuggled out of the hut, while a bunch of plantains is put in with the body of the woman and bound up with the funeral binding clothes.
Then poisoned plantains are placed within the enclosure, and the elephants eat these and grow drowsier and drowsier; if the water supply within the enclosure is a pool it is poisoned, but if it is a running stream this cannot be done.
The elder lady was tearing to pieces and eating a pine-apple, while the others were at the plantains destroying more than they ate.
He rested upon the shore of this lake through the hottest part of the day; breakfasting upon some plantains which he had found, and upon the lily seeds and sprouts.
What did the fellow tie that bunch of plantains up to the front of the gharrie for?
On the third day after I went to live in the cage a family of ten gorillas was seen to cross an open space along the back of a patch of plantains near one of the villages.
At another time I heard two making a noise among the plantains near me.
Next day he sent some pomba, fowls, and plantains as a present.
In planting the plantains and yams, they observe so much exactness, that, whichever way you look, the rows present themselves regular and complete.
After their departure, another canoe arrived, conducted by a man who brought a bunch of plantainsas a present to me; asking for me by name, having learnt it from Omai, who was sent before us in the boat with Mr Gore.
In it was a hog, with some plantains and cocoa nuts, for which the people who brought them demanded a dog from us, and refused every other thing that we offered in exchange.
A considerable number of cocoa-nuts were now brought, and shortly after a long green basket, with a sufficient quantity of baked plantains to have served a dozen persons.
Many portions of the hills are covered with plantains in immense numbers, (not Musa glauca).
The occurrence of plantains and mangoes here is curious, and a sure sign of mild climate, as Kalanchoe is of dryness; nothing could well exceed the barrenness of the road, from crossing Dumria to Benka.
A few plantains may be met with here, but in a wretched state.
In the afternoon the King of Bottone, or Booton, sent some plantains to our captain, and a kind of liquor for drinking called Irea-pote, in return for which the captain sent back a rich painted calico.
In the mean time the chief sent to our general two Barbara sheep, having broad rumps and small tails, with some plantains and other fruits.
How delicious theplantains and cassava tasted, and some well-dressed venison.
The principal dish consisted of hippopotamus flesh, but there were plantains and cassava porridge, with an abundance of wild fruits, the best of which was the moshoma, both fresh and dried.
The path I was following led to an open space, which had been used as a plantation by the natives, I guessed, by finding a few plantains growing on it.
A number of birds were forthwith roasting before the fire, while an ample supply of plantains were being baked on the ashes.
An open space at the foot of the hill, where plantains were growing, showed us that we were near the village, though it was so completely concealed by trees that not till we were actually at the gates did we discover it.
As we could not tell into what regions the river might carry us it was important to kill some game and to collect as many plantains as we could carry off from the deserted village.
Having cooked the rice, the eldest son brings it into the middle room, and mixes it with some unrefined sugar, plantains and pappadams, making two balls, one large and one small.
He erects a miniature temple-like structure of young cocoanut leaves, with the stems of young plantains near it, by the side of the pool.
Permission being given, the plantains are cut down, and the woman-folk wail round a chembu (vessel) placed there.
These occasions are marked by offerings of cocoanuts and plantains to the village deity.
At the close of the ceremony, a distribution of the rice and plantains takes place.
He lays out a row of plantain leaves, and spreads on each leaf a little rice, on which plantains are laid.
On the morning of the celebration, every family takes rice and plantains to the dwelling of the headman.
Then I took a box of matches from my hunting-bag, and set fire to a large pile of wood which I had made ready, and then I cooked a few plantains I had with me.
Happily, his majesty brought some plantainsand fish with him.
I had more goats and plantains given to me than my men and myself could eat.
I was glad that I had reached a country where I should not readily starve--plantains and goats were plentiful.
For food we had a few plantains and dried cassada.
I breakfasted outside of my hut, a few roasted plantains and a boiled fowl being my fare.
Olenda, the king or head chief of the Ashiras, for whose place I was bound, sent presents of goats and plantains for the spirit by two messengers, and wanted to know if the arrival of the moguizi was true.
I had come back to Obindji to see if I could get some plantains or smoked cassada, and then intended to return to the woods in search of new animals and new insects.
Plantains and cassava had been gathered for our journey.
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