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Gulf from Bombay, and when thus naturalised, finding its 

 way to Europe. But the coffee of India is now competing 

 successfully with that of Arabia in markets which the latter 

 had for centuries commanded as its own. In a few years the 

 Indian article will entirely surpass the Arabian. It is the 

 old story of enterprise originated and directed by Europeans 

 driving competition out of the market. Seeing that the 

 Arabs are in the habit of baking the cow- dung and cakes for 

 food on the same wall, they cannot be suspected of any 

 violent antipathy to diitper se. But, passionate lovers as 

 they are of a good cup of coffee, they can easily understand 

 that an equal quantity of well-cleaned Malabar coffee is 

 cheaper than that brought in the buggalows of the Nijd 

 Arabs, and which is described as full of extraneous matter, 

 such as pieces of the coffee-husk, &c. But the Indian coffee 

 is actually sold cheaper, quantity for quantity. The con- 

 sumption of Yemen coffee is now entirely confined to the 

 wealthier chiefs ; the finest kind, and that most sought after, 

 being the small, of a light-green colour. Latterly, the 

 Yemen coffee has been all sent to Bagdad, a compliment 

 which the ancient city of the Sultans cannot fail to appre- 

 ciate at its true value. It is too dear and too dirty for the 

 poor Arabs of Bussorah, while the flavour of the Malabar 

 kind is found closely to approximate to that of Yemen. 



The coffee is generally grown half way up the slopes of the 

 hills, but some is cultivated on lower ground, surrounded by 

 large trees for shade. The harvest is gathered at three 

 periods of the year, the principal being in May. Cloths are 

 spread under the trees, which are shaken, that the ripe fruit 

 may drop. The berries are then collected and exposed to the 

 sun on mats to dry. A heavy roller is afterwards passed over 

 the berries, to break the envelopes, and the husk is win- 

 nowed away with a fan. The berries are further dried before 

 being stored. 



