There is a peculiar fruit found here as well as elsewhere in the island, called the cashew, which persists in outraging all our ideas of consistency by producing its nut outside of the skin.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
The fruit of the cashew is not palatable, but its juice, when distilled, produces a strong intoxicating spirit.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
The cocoa-nut and plantain were mingled with the wild pine and lime-tree; while the cashew and wild coffee, with numberless other shrubs, loaded at once with fruit and blossom, formed the underwood to these graceful forests.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig