a small town of Arabia Fodix), being Mufti* of Aden, a 

 famous town, and part of the same country, about the 

 middle of the 9th age of the Hegirah, and of the loth of 

 our Lord, had occasion to make a voyage to Persia. During 

 his stay there, he found some of his countrymen who took 

 nseat^^rfe?^i!the coffcc, which, at first, lie took no great notice of; but at his 

 Arabia Fmiix. return to Aden, his health being impair'd, and calling to 

 mind the coSee, which he had seen taken in Persia, he took 

 some, in hopes it might do him good. Not only the Mufti's 

 health was restor'd by the use of it, but he soon became 

 sensible of the other properties of coffee ; particularly, that 

 it dissipates heaviness in the head, exhilarates the spirits, 

 and hinders sleep without indisposing one. 



The Arabian author adds, that they found coffee so good, 

 that they entirely left off the use of another liquor, which 

 was in vogue at Aden, made of the leaves of a plant call'd 

 Cat, which cannot be supposed to be the TJie, because this 

 writer says nothing which might favour that opinion. 



Since this was written, Mr. W. Elborne, of the Owens 

 College, called my attention to a paper by Mr. James Vaughan, 

 Civil and Port Surgeon at Aden, who states that some esti- 

 mate may be formed of the strong predilection which the 

 Arabs have still for kat, from the quantit}'- used in Aden 

 alone, which averages about 280 camel loads annually. He 

 adds that he is not aware that Kat is used in Aden in any 

 other way than for mastication ; from what he has heard, 

 however, he believes a decoction resembling tea is made from 

 the leaf by the Arabs in the Interior.f 



Mr. Vaughan gives also some abstracts from de Lacy's 

 Ghrestomathie arahe, in which it is stated on the authority 

 of some Arabian authors, that coffee was not introduced into 

 Arabia by Mohamed Dhabhani, as it was generally stated, 



* An order of Priests amongst tlie Mahometans, wliicli may be call'd 

 their Bishops. 



t Pharm. Journ. Trans, xii., 26S (1852—1853). 



