India rubber world . made candies, andthe great variety of sweet cakes of which both Mexicans andIndians are very fond. I got a dozen oranges for ten cents, andthey were simply delicious. A fruit that I had been very anx-ious to taste was the sapodillo, produced by the tree from whichthe Chicle comes, and, finding them on sale at last, I immedi-ately invested. It is about the size of an apple, with a skin like the potato, thepulp tasting likegelatine filledwith brown sug-ar. I also sam-pled many otherfruits. Of themall, as might beexpected, the ba-nana is the mostcommon, and Iobserved severalv
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India rubber world . made candies, andthe great variety of sweet cakes of which both Mexicans andIndians are very fond. I got a dozen oranges for ten cents, andthey were simply delicious. A fruit that I had been very anx-ious to taste was the sapodillo, produced by the tree from whichthe Chicle comes, and, finding them on sale at last, I immedi-ately invested. It is about the size of an apple, with a skin like the potato, thepulp tasting likegelatine filledwith brown sug-ar. I also sam-pled many otherfruits. Of themall, as might beexpected, the ba-nana is the mostcommon, and Iobserved severalvarieties that arenever seen in theStates. Sometiny yellow ones, a little largerthanonesthumbhave an extreme-ly delicate flavor, laborers camp and CLEARING. and are deli- cious. Of this family is a large plantain which is either friedor broiled, never being eaten raw, and which is extremely pal-atable. There are a great variety of other fruits which appearat certain seasons, such, for example, as the sour sop, a sort of. August i, 1903.] THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 371