Handwritten China journal of Edmund Heller (5 of 5)
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8) This was a red letter Day. I tasted my first division of most remarkable fruit & found only in this particular part of the world. They have a most offensive odor a strong fetid rather shrunk like smell to the tongue. Thorn covered exterior shell. Within the fruit is divided into lengthwise sections like an orange in which lie 3 large rounded seeds the size of chestnut & these are covered by a day colored pulp which forms the edible part. The pulp is decidedly sweet in taste like a custard apple. The odor events into the texture & this makes it very distinctive & pleasant. H. Sachs