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of his own Countrymen who uicd to drink Coffee. At firfl he 
took but little notice of itj but fome time after his return, being 
in a bad State of Health, he began to call to mind the Liquor 
which he had feen drank in Perjta, and imagined that it would 
do him good. The Event aniwer’d his Expedation, and he 
foon difcover’d, that it had many other Virtues, He found that 
it prevented Sleep without any bad Confequence attending it, that 
it diffipated all manner of Heavinefs and Drowfinefs, and made 
him more brisk and gay than he was wont to be. Theie Effedfs 
efpecially endear’d it to him, and he made very good ufe of them 
among his Deri^izef, (or Mahometan Monks.) He caus’d them 
to drink Coffee before they began their nodlurnal Devotions, and 
by this means they perform’d all their Exercifes of Religion with 
great Alacrity and Freedom of Mind. 
The Example and Authority of the Mufti loon brought this 
Liquor into vogue. The Students of Law, and all who lov’d 
reading , Trades-People, when they had occafion to work in the 
Night-time j Travellers, that they might be at liberty to repofe 
themielves during the excefhve Heats j and, by degrees, the whole 
City of Aelen began to drink Coffee, not only at Night, if they 
were minded to lit up, but in the Day-time likewile, on account 
of the other good Qualities which they diicover’d to belong to if. 
The Ufe of it (oon became fo general there, that the Inhabitants 
quite left off another Drink, till then, very common amongff 
them, made of the Leaves of a Plant call’d Chat. 
The Mufti Gemaleddin died in the Year 1470 ; and tho’ it ap- 
pears from the preceding Hiflory, that Coffee was ufed by others 
before him, yet it ieems to have been but very little known even 
in Arabia Felix, the native, and then the only Place of its 
Growth 5 neither can we with any Certainty carry the Diffovery 
of it much farther back. Of this moreover we are fure, that 
the fubiequent general Ufe of it was entirely owing to him. He 
was not only at great pains to introduce it among his Dervizes, 
but employ’d his Intereft and Friends to bring it in reputation 
amongft all the People of Aden. The chief Promoter of it un- 
der him, our Author tells us, was a Doctor of great Reputation, 
named Mohammed Alhadrami, a Native of Hadramout, the Capital 
of the Province of that Name in Arabia Felix. 
Before we go any further, it may be proper to remark, that 
this Story of the Mufti, and his Ver^izes, probably gave ri(c to 
Banejius's Fable concerning the Prior and his Monks : They both 
agree in many Circumftances, efpecially as to the End propos’d 
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