ASIAN COFFEES. 1 09 



Nyanza, and other districts as far west as the base of the 

 Killimanjaro mountains, the total yield of. which, how- 

 ever, so far as its influence on the world's supply is con- 

 sidered, is insignificant, the export capacity of the whole 

 not exceeding 150,000 pounds annually. The entire 

 product of the Eastern provinces of Africa taken in con- 

 nection with the comparatively small crops raised on the 

 West coast makes that country contribute only between 

 5,000 to 6,000 tons to the world's supply, this amount 

 including all coffees grown in Egypt and the interior 

 countries of the continent of Africa. 



Comprise Arabian, East Indian, Ceylon, Malayan and 

 all coffees grown in the Straits Settlements. 



Is universally but erroneously known to trade as the 

 far-famed " Mocha," as no coffee is or ever was grown 

 there. Mocha, itself, being comparatively a modern 

 town, which rose with the coffee trade to a short-lived 

 prosperity, the term " Mocha" as applied to Arabian 

 coffee,, being derived solely from the shipment of its 

 product from there in former times. The internal dis- 

 orders of Arabia and the efforts of Mohamed AH to 

 make the coffee trade pass through India accelerated its 

 decline, the place being now nothing more than a mere 

 village. The shipment of coffee is no longer carried on 

 there, being transferred further south to the ports of 

 Aden and Hodeida, yet, although, still known to trade 

 as " Mocha," and notwithstanding the fact that Arabian 

 coffee has been popularly and commercially known for 

 centuries as Mocha, it never produced any coffee, being 

 situated as it is in a sterile plain. Seeing that Arabia is the 



