COFFEE l6l 



Coffea arabica is a native of the mountains of eastern 

 Africa, from Abyssinia to Mozambique ; it has also been 

 found wild in Angola. It is called Arabian coffee be- 

 cause it was first introduced to the rest of the world by 

 the Arabs, and was first cultivated as an article of com- 

 merce with Europe, in Arabia. 



PRODUCTION 







Total Exports. Figures on the amount of coffee pro- 

 duced are not very accurate, because we do not know how 

 much is consumed in the countries which produce it, but 

 only how much they export to Europe and the United 

 States. However, it is easy to see how rapidly the 

 industry has grown. The number of tons exported from 

 the countries of the world has been : 



1832 .... 96,0x30 1875 .... 513,000 



1844 .... 259,000 1 88 1 . . . . 598,000 



1855 . . . . 326,000 1891 . . . . 558,000 



1865 .... 428,000 1899 .... 802,000 



The amount is now more than a million tons. Of this 

 Brazil produces one half, and the rest of America one 

 fourth. The Dutch East Indies produce a large part of 

 the coffee of the Old World, followed by India, Madagas- 

 car, West Africa, Ceylon, Arabia, etc., and the Philippines. 



The United States consumes about one half of the 

 coffee, followed by Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, 

 and England. 



