Durion

Among them the durion is the most esteemed by the natives, and the mangosteen by Europeans. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

The durion is a forest tree of the loftiest order, bearing resemblance to the elm, only with a smooth bark, which is also scaly. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

It would not perhaps be correct to say that the durion is the best of all fruits, because it cannot supply the place of a sub-acid juicy kind; such as the orange, grape, mango, and mangosteen, whose refreshing and cooling qualities are so wholesome and grateful; but as producing a food of the most exquisite flavour, it is unsurpassed. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Every village consists of such houses as I have described before, grouped, but not by any means closely, under the shade of cocoa-palms, jak, durion, bread-fruit, mango, nutmeg, and other fruit-trees. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The jak trees (artocarpus incisa), near of kin to the bread-fruit, and the durion, flourish round all the dwellings. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang — a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The durion grows to the size of a man's head, and is covered closely with hard, sharp spines. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

In the middle of the dinner table there is a reflecting lake for "hothouse flowers;" and exquisite crystal, menu cards with holders of Dresden china, four classical statuettes in Parian, with pine-apples, granadillas, bananas, pomegranates, and a durion blanda, are the "table decorations." ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

Then we had a slim repast of soda water and bananas, the Hadji worshiped with his face toward Mecca, and the boatmen prepared an elaborate curry for themselves, with salt fish for its basis, and for its tastiest condiment blachang – a Malay preparation much relished by European lovers of durion and decomposed cheese. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)

Throwing down his bundle of creepers, Saloo now took up one of the pointed pegs, and, standing by the trunk of the durion, drove it into the soft sapwood, a little above the height of his own head. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Both the natives of the Malayan Archipelago and strangers residing there regard the durion as superior to all other kinds of fruit -- in short, the finest in the world. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The next thing to be exhausted was the upright piece, which, being only about thirty feet in length, and requiring a surplus to be left, of course came far short of reaching to the lowest limbs of the durion. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

Now they saw it, and now they did not see it; for whatever it was, it was sunk inside the trunk of the durion-tree, alternately protruding and drawing back. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

As it was carried down the smooth stem of the durion, which acted as a conductor, the spectators underneath guessed it was not a goose, but some creature of a less innocent kind. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

For all this, they were no little surprised and somewhat incredulous when he declared his intention of climbing the great durion-tree. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

The fruit of the durion proved not only pleasant eating, but exceedingly nutritious. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

It is true the durion stood near, and its fruit would for a time keep them from starving. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)