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CACAO 



SUMMARY 



Tea. 



Coffee. 



Cacao. 





CHAPTER X 

 SPICES 



' Awake, O north wind ; and come, thou south ; blow upon 

 my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out.' Solomon's 

 Song, iv. 16. 



From the remotest ages poets have sung of fragrant spices, 

 and set them among the good things of life. We read of them 

 in the Songs of Solomon, and in the Book of Proverbs, and in 

 many other books of ancient literature. 



In the time of the Greeks and Romans they were among 

 their most highly-prized articles of commerce. Indeed, our 

 own word ' spices ' reminds us of this fact ; for it is derived 

 from the Latin ' species ', which at first meant a ' sort ' or 

 ' kind ' of anything, and later came to mean produce in general, 



