SECTION IX. 



CULTURE IN ARABIA. 



THE culture [of coffee is principally carried on in Yemen, 

 towards the districts of Aden and Mocha. The nearest 

 coffee plantations are about eighty miles from Aden. 



The coffee-growing country in the Yemen is 300 miles 

 to the south of Jeddab, being the districts about Tohira, 

 Uodeida, and Tanaa. Of this, the Turks have but little, 

 their authority only extending over the narrow slip called 

 the Tehana, in which is little coffee. They had till lately 

 the export dues of all the coffee grown in Western Arabia, 

 but they have lost a great part of them, a large quantity of 

 coffee being sent to Aden for exportation. Mocha, the 

 ancient port and capital, has completely fallen, and is in 

 ruins. Its place is taken by Uodeida, the seat of govern- 

 ment of the Yemen, and a Pashalic under Jeddah. In 

 1860, coffee to the value of 14,2682. was imported into Aden 

 by sea, of 55,710Z. was brought by land, and 45,344Z. was 

 exported. An enormous quantity is consumed in Arabia. 

 Very little genuine Yemen coffee is procurable in Europe. 

 It is difficult to obtain even in Jeddah. It is first mixed in 

 the Yemen with inferior Abyssinian coffee, then mixed at 

 Jeddah with damaged coffee, and probably in Egypt it is 

 again mixed. Alexandria and Cairo are notorious for bad 

 coffee. 



It has been understood for several years that much of the 

 coffee which finds its way into England as genuine Mocha 

 is, in reality, Malabar coffee, sent to ports on the Persian 



