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use of which they also inherited from their ancestors, 

 without any account of its origin. 



When the Spaniards first landed in Mexico, they became 

 acquainted with a native beverage, which had been used 

 from time immemorial, called by the natives Chocollatl, 

 and prepared from the seeds of a tree, which they named 

 Cacahoaquahuitl (Cacao-tree). Wherever the Spanish 

 dominion has subsequently extended to, there also has the 

 use of Chocolate reached, and the rest of Europe has 

 asserted an abundant claim to a share in this new 

 beverage. 



In the commencement of the seventeenth century, a 

 quantity of carefully-packed, dried green leaves, were pre- 

 sented to a Russian Embassy in China, in return for their 

 gifts of splendid sable furs, and even forced upon them in 

 spite of their protestations against such useless wares. But 

 when they brought the same to Moscow, and had them 

 prepared according to the directions, the Tea, for such it was, 

 found equally great approval. Almost at the same time, 

 the Dutch East India Company attempted to sell to the 

 Chinese, Sage, which at that time was used as Tea is now, 

 and they obtained in exchange Chinese tea. In 1664, the 

 English East India Company considered that they made a 

 brilliant present to the Queen of England, in the shape 

 of two pounds of Tea. The use of Tea as a beverage in 

 China, goes back to the earliest periods, and the traditions 

 speak of it distinctly so early as the third century. The 

 oldest Chinese legend reminds one strongly of the course of 

 the introduction of Coffee into Arabia. It narrates : " A 

 pious hermit, who in his watchings and prayers had often 

 been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy 

 wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off and 



