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The pulp is of a reddish yellow, and the seeds, which are about the size of grains of pepper, have a hot taste like cresses. The rock or musk-melons, are not common. Tamarinds, called asam jawa, or the Javan acid, are the produce of a large and noble tree, with small pinnated leaves, and supply a grateful relief in fevers, which too frequently require it.
There were cresses, horseradish, turnips, and lastly, little branching hairy stalks, scarcely more than three feet high, which produced brownish grains. "Do you know what this plant is?" asked Herbert of the sailor. "Tobacco!" cried Pencroft, who evidently had never seen his favorite plant except in the bowl of his pipe. "No, Pencroft," replied Herbert; "this is not tobacco, it is mustard."
He had nothing to do now but enjoy himself, and look at all the pretty things which are to be seen in the cool, clear water world, where the sun is never too hot and the frost is never too cold. And what did he live on? Water cresses, perhaps; or perhaps water gruel, and water milk; too many land babies do so likewise.
It fell into a hollow as large as a washing basin which it had worn in the stone; then, falling in a cascade, hardly two feet high, it trickled across the footpath which it had carpeted with cresses, and was lost among the briers and grass on the raised shelf where the boulders were piled. "Oh, I am so thirsty!" cried Mme. Rosemilly. But how could she drink?
The filth and the squalor and vileness would fade and dissolve and I would see the sun-dial, with the yellow roses on it, warm in the sun, and smell the clove pinks in the kitchen border, and touch the cresses by the brook, cool and green and wet.
They all felt it, and breathed more freely. "Delicious cresses!" said Mrs. Rossitur. "Yes, I wonder where they came from," said her husband. "Who got them?" "I guess Fleda knows," said Hugh. "They grow in a little stream of spring water over here in the meadow," said Fleda demurely.
Let careful housekeepers not given to these "foreign dishes" remember that they are not only appetizing but economical. 120. =Spring Salad.= Break one pint of fresh mustard tops, and one of cresses, tear one good-sized lettuce, and chop two green onions; place all lightly in a dish, and ornament it with celery and slices of boiled beet. Use it with a cream dressing.
There was a venison pasty, of all things, a large broad-faced cut ham, eggs and cresses and red beet-root, and medlars and apple-tart, and tea. 'What GOOD things! she cried with pleasure. 'How noble it looks! shall I pour out the tea? She was usually nervous and uncertain at performing these public duties, such as giving tea.
At first they saw no one, but Captain Woodward soon saw three of the natives approaching him; and ordering his men to keep quiet, he advanced alone until he had come within a short distance of them, where they stopped and drew out their cresses or knives. Captain Woodward fell on his knees and begged for mercy.
A cup of the ice-cold water which bubbled up from a boss of cresses by the roadside completed his Spartan breakfast. His next step was to examine his surroundings. "From the top of this hill," said Lynde, "I shall probably be able to see where I am, if that will be any comfort to me."
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