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Give Us Our Daily Breadfruit: Bread Substitution in the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century

British voyagers and travelers, since their first taste of it in 1686, have perceived the uru, both practically and rhetorically, as a substitute, (fig. I)1 Although the earliest account of the fruit is found in the records of Mendana's voyage to the Marquesas in 1595, the Spanish sources do not make the analogy with bread that was to characterize its description in English, focusing instead on local nomenclature and modes of preparation: "it is eaten many ways, and by the natives is called white food."2 William Dampier, by contrast, who sampled it in Guam, claims credit for giving the fruit its catachrestic English name breadfruit. His description of it, in his 1697 account, accumulates similes announcing its status as bread substitute. Dampier writes: