Every day Evanitalina grew more weak, yet unlike most sick persons, she was without fear at her condition, even welcoming it, and saying: "Soon I shall pass beyond the skies on my last malanga"; an once when she saw a wilted aute, she said: "Such am I, once blooming and now a-droop," and with that she plucked fiercely at the petals, and crushed them in her hand, as though she were hastening her own extinction.
"Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas"
Lloyd Osbourne
The constant joy of the natives is to go for a malanga or boat expedition to visit neighbouring villages, and we quite realised the fascination of this mode of progress when we were rowed through the quiet lagoons in early morning or late evening, the rising or setting sun striking colours from the barrier reefs, and our boatmen chanting native songs as they bent to their oars.
"Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life"
Margaret Elizabeth Leigh Child-Villiers, Countess of Jersey
These are cooked in a broth, thickened with a farinaceous root called malanga, and flavored with lemon juice.
"Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom"
Trumbull White