Cottee Rat. 



CHAPTER XV. 



COFFEE. 



Enarea and KafFa — Gemaledie introduces its use into Arabia — Fanaticism 

 endeavours to forbid it — The first Coflfee-Houses in London and Marseilles — 

 Coffee-production in Brazil — Java — Ceylon — Rapid extension of its culture in 

 Ceylon since 1825 — The CofFee-Plant — The best situations for its growth — Its 

 cultivation in Java described — The Musang — Expertness of the Ceylon "Wood- 

 men in preparing the Coffee Ground — Enemies of the Coffee-Plant — Tlie 

 Golunda Eat — The Lecanium Coffete. 



THE mountain regions of Enarea and Caffa, which the reader, 

 on consulting a map of Africa, will find situated to the south 

 of Abyssinia (and not Arabia-Felix as Linnaeus erroneously sup- 

 posed), are most probably the countries where the cofifee-tree was 

 first planted by nature, as it has here not only been cultivated 

 from time immemorial, but is everywhere found growing wild in 

 the forests. 



Here also the art of preparing a beverage from its berries 

 seems to have been first discovered. Arabic authors inform 

 us that about four hundred years ago Gemaledie, a learned 



