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"There is also another fruit, called amba,(1) green and resembling very much a nut, but larger than the nectarine; the outer rind is bitter, but within it is sweet like honey: before they are ripe they steep them in water to remove the acidity, in the same manner as we are in the habit of steeping green olives."
(1) The Mango (Mangifera Indica, L.).
- Nicolò de' Conti, translated in R. H. Major, India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India (London: Hakluyt Society, 1857), pp. 18-19.
(See this passage in the traveller's account)
