Here am I watching Helen Perowne one day, her father the next; then up all night with Billy-I mean Mrs-Barlow; without taking into consideration the calls to Private Thomas Atkins, who has eaten too much plaintain and mangosteen, and thinks he has the cholera; Mrs Ali Musto Rafoo, who is in a fidget about her offspring; and all the livers of the European residents to keep in gear.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
In the exuberance of its vegetation, the productiveness of its glorious palms, the abundance of its luscious fruits,-including that seductive apple of the East, the mangosteen,-and the fascinating beauty of its variegated flora, it is not surpassed by any island or continent on the globe.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
For a long time the luscious mangosteen was thought to be peculiar to the islands of the Malacca Straits, but it is now found thriving in this garden-land of Ceylon, having been long since introduced from Penang.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou