( 9 ) . 
Bon, or rather Buun, and the other Names which confill of 
the fame Confonants with it, feem to be thofe by which the 
Fruit has been moll generally expreffed in the Eaft - but whe- 
ther fome part of the Variety that is to be found in them may 
not be owing to the Miftakes of Travellers, I leave to the Judges 
of the Eaflern Languages to determine. Salmajius has, I think, 
given us one plain Inftance of it in Alpimcsy and Monf. Galand, 
(if we will believe La Roque) another in Banejius^ tho’ a Syrian 
by Birth 
The third Sort of Names for the Fruit, we fhall confider to- 
gether with thofe of the Liquor, they being derived from thence. 
4. Concerning thefe, the following Remarks from Authors 
are worth fetting down. 
^ It v/ill hardly be believed, fays Monf Lour^ that tho’Cof’ 
^ fee has been drank for fo many Years paft, we lliould flill be 
^ imiorant of the true Name of it. The Authors who have 
^ written upon this Subjedl differ from one another as much in 
^ the Names they gi\^ this Liquor, as in the Qualities they afcribe 
‘ to it. Some tell us that before it be ground it ought to be cal- 
^ led in Latin, Bunchum-, and in French, Bon-, which they pro- 
^ ncunce, Bun. After it is reduced to Powder, there are a great 
^ many other Names given it, which have been already fet down.) 
^ But Monf D’ Ar^icufe, the French Conful at Aleppo, who had 
been at great pains to inform himfelf while he remained there, 
‘ tells me that the true Name of the Coffee Bean, among the 
‘ Arabians, is Cahoueh, the Arabians having no qj Confonantj 
‘ but the Turks ^ and other Eaftern People, pronounce it Cah-veh y 
^ and that Word is derived from Cohuet, which fignifies Strength 
‘ or Vigour j and the Coftee Fruit is fo called becaufe of the Ef- 
‘ fed:s afcribed to it. 
This Etymology did nor, however, fatisfy Monf G aland, as 
appears from the Account that La Roque has given us of that 
Part of his Book. ^ Monf Galand, fays he, begins by eftablnli- 
^ ing the original and proper Signification of the Word Co^ee , 
^ and according to him it comes from Cahueh, as it is pronounced 
^ by the Turks, with an ^ Confonant j and it is the fame thing 
^ with Cahouah, amongfh the Arabians^ who pronounce their ^ 
‘ Confonant as the Italians do their Vowel u. 
‘ Cahouah is the Infinitive of a Verb, and fignifies to loath, 
^ or to have no Stomach •, and it is likewife one of the different 
‘ Names which the Arabians give to Wine, becaufe they think 
^ the Excefs of it produces thefe bad Effeds. 
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