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little port of Moclia, which furnishes the trade-name for the Ara- 

 bian coffee, and from whence, until the construction of the Suez 

 Canal, when Aden was made the port of call for the Eastern steam 

 lines, most of it was exported. Now it goes either to Aden by 

 native trading vessels or to Alexandria by the Khedive's Red Sea 

 line of steamers. Considerable quantities of African coffee from 

 the north coast also find their way, through the Berber and other 

 native traders, to the same destination and go into consumption 

 as " Mocha." The imports received into the United States under 

 the name of Mocha amounted in 1878 to 12,788 bales, in 1879 

 to 16,346 bales, and in 1880 to 14,172 bales — only about one- 

 half of which were probably of Arabian growth. 



