Pulmo hominis facile deficit." "Alas! yes." "You see, then?" "Luckily, I have zeal." "Ah! but that is not enough; I advise you to eat some sardines, and drink a little of this nectar." "A single sardine, then, and one glass." Chicot gave him the sardine, and passed him the bottle. He himself took care to keep sober. "I feel myself less feeble," said Gorenflot.

There are a long number of fruits on the island, such as cherries, guava plums, juicy mangoes and bell apples. Edwin Emerson, Jr., a war correspondent, speaks of some of the fruits as follows: "The most astonishing and the best of all was a fruit called pulmo in our language, sour-sap.