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coffee berries from Mocha, which he planted near his hermit- 
age, about which are now to be seen some very old coffee 
lants. (Drury.). 
_ Coffee-drinking was introduced into India by the Persian 
Bieter, but its use appears to have been confined for a long 
time to the entourage of the Moghal Court, as Linschoten, 
who was in India from 1576 to 1590, does not mention the 
berry among the articles of trade found in the Portuguese 
Settlements in the Hast. Rauwolffis the first European writer 
who notices it, having observed its use at Aleppo in 1573. In 
1592, Prosper Alpinus published a figure and description of 
_ the plant froma cultivated specimen he saw in a garden in 
_ Egypt. For some time after this, Cahué, Coffa, or Kauhi as it 
is written in an Arabic and English pamphlet printed at 
Oxford in 1659, appears to have been known by name only 
to the learned in Europe, as Burton in his Anatomy of Melan- 
_ choly, which was published in 1621, says, “The Turks have a 
_ drink called coffee (for they use no wine), so named of a 
berry as black as soot, and as bitter (like the black drink 
which was in use amongst the Lacedwmonians, and perhaps 
_ the same), we they sip still of, and sup as warm as they 
can suffer,’’ . 
Coffee-drinking began to be practised in Western Europe by — 
Turkey merchants in 1650, and in 1652 it was introduced into 
London, when one Pasqua Rosee, the Greek servant of a Turkey 
merchant named Edwards, opened a house to sell it publicly in 
St. Michael’s Alley, Cornhill. There appears tohave been much 
prejudice for a long time against the Turkish berry as black as 
soot and as bitter, as in 1663 a a satire, entitled “A Cup 
pet oe or Coffee in its colours,” appeared, in which it is stigma~ 
tized as— 
A loathsome potion, not yet understood, 
Syrop of soot, or essence of old eo 
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