EARLY USE OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE 29 
Amongst the four sorts the chiefest is Quathuitl, of an indifferent 
heighth, and full of sharp-pointed Leaves, which are fast to the Boughs 
without Stalks, and bears a great Flower of a yellowish colour, which 
falling off, leaves long, tough and hairy Threds behind them, out of 
which grows the Cacavently, a Fruit which is oval, heavy like a Melon, 
Satiron-colour, | fat and thick Juice, a bitterish, yet pleasant 
in the 
CA “ Sun it is thereby made fit 
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highly esteem’d, because 
the Chocolate is made of the same. Before the Spaniards made them- 
selves Masters of Mexico, no other Drink was esteem’d but that of 
the Cacao; none caring for Wine, notwithstanding the Soil produces 
Vines every where in great abundance of it self. But besides the 
Quathuitl, New Spain hath three other sorts of Cacao-Trees, viz., 
Mecanal, pleasant to behold for its heighth, large Leaves and Fruit ; 
the next is the Xochucaual, which is less than the former ; and lastly, 
the least sort, which is call’d Halcacahual. The Fruit of these four 
