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Tlu! iiu.-iIkhIs will sirikc llu- n-.uli ; ... .cry priinilix c aiul 

 in»t very cK'.inly. hut thf natives no tloiiht made the lu-sl of ihtir 

 means to prevent the ilclicate j)reparati<)n mini^linj^ with mother 

 eirth. 



The followiiii; cnp^raxiiiL; is taken from an okl book eniilK (.1 



" Le Hon Usai^e Du The. I)u Caffe. et l)u Choctilat j;our la 



IVeservation et pour la Giierison des Maladies, par Monsieur de 



Hlei^iiy. Conseiller, Medeciii. Artiste ordinaire du Roy, a 



Lyon. 16S7 " : — 



K. HrouKes, M [)., 1730, in ins ■ Natural History of 

 Chocolate," tells us: ''There iirc also imjK)rted from America 



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