MANGOSTEEN:
The Notes of a Traveler, T.W.K., February 5, 1878.
“This pulp melts away in your mouth after the manner of a ripe peach or strawberry; it has a taste which nobody can describe any more than he can tell how a canary sings or a violet smells, and I know of nothing more forcible than the statement of a Yankee skipper who pronounced the mangosteen the ‘bang-upest fruit’ he had ever seen.”