OTHER VARIETIES. II 7 



Berberah. — Also an African coffee recognized by its 

 large and tapering bean, heavy body and rich infusion, 

 and used principally for mixing with or substituting for 

 genuine Mocha coffee. 



Havar. — Another variety of Mocha coffee known to 

 trade as "Havar" or " Hazar," which comes from the 

 south African coast of the Red sea, is being recently 

 shipped from Aden. The bean is long and pointed, 

 greenish in cast, and solid in structure; it roasts and 

 drinks exceedingly well, being preferred by many con- 

 noisseurs to the true Mocha bean. 



Mussowah — Is an Abyssinian variety, previously 

 described, deriving its trade name from being shipped 

 from that port on the African coast of the Red sea. 



Egyptian Mocha. — In Alexandria, Mocha coffee is 

 imitated by the substitution of small-bean African varieties, 

 principally produced in Berber, Nubia, Somali and the 

 interior of the Soudan, which are carefully picked over 

 and assorted by hand, the larger beans being separated 

 from the smaller, the better to adapt them to their 

 respective markets, being usually shipped to France and 

 other continental European countries. 



Arabian or "Mocha" Coffee is put up in large grass- 

 mat bales — containing two smaller packages termed 

 " quarters " or four termed " eights " — distinctive in shape 

 and material, being made of a coarse, grassy substance 

 and sewn with a fibrous ligature that becomes excessively 

 hard and tough as it seasons. The exports, the amount 

 of which it is difficult to determine owing to the fact that 

 there is no real custom-house control in the country, 

 consists of about 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds only, 

 about half of which only is pure Mocha, the product being 

 so badly manipulated and so extensively substituted with 

 other coffees of foreign origin and inferior quality. 



