. Coffee. Coffee. 858 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OP THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. A mass of fanciful romance, tradition, and legend envelops the earliest historical accounts of coffee, but it seems safe to accept the statement of Arabian writers that a pious Mohammedan, who had found the beverage made from the bean useful in warding off drowsi- ness during prayers, introduced it into the city of Yemen, southern Arabia, in 875 A: D.; that is, about a thousand years ago. From Arabia it spread through Asia Minor and northern Africa, but ap- pears not to have reached Europe, via Constantinople, before the be-
. Coffee. Coffee. 858 INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OP THE AMERICAN REPUBLICS. A mass of fanciful romance, tradition, and legend envelops the earliest historical accounts of coffee, but it seems safe to accept the statement of Arabian writers that a pious Mohammedan, who had found the beverage made from the bean useful in warding off drowsi- ness during prayers, introduced it into the city of Yemen, southern Arabia, in 875 A: D.; that is, about a thousand years ago. From Arabia it spread through Asia Minor and northern Africa, but ap- pears not to have reached Europe, via Constantinople, before the be- ginning of the sixteenth century. The first coffeehouse was opened in London in 1652. Coffee was introduced into Paris about the. BENEFICIO DE CAFE, COSTA RICA. The illustration shows in detail the drying beds in use on modern plantations. In the evening the layers of coffee are raked into piles, which are covered over for protection from the dew. same time, or, perhaps, a little later. Coffee drinking in both Eng- land and France became extremely popular and well-nigh universal. The practice of coffee drinking, both in Mohammedan and Chris- tian countries, encountered for a long time the bitter disfavor and opposition of sovereigns and potentates—in Mohammedan lands be- cause the custom kept people away from religious services in the mosques,, and in Christian states because coffee houses were regarded as rendezvous for sedition and the hatching of conspiracies against governments. Chronic coffee drinkers, therefore, were punished severely with flogging and imprisonment; but these drastic measures having no appreciable effect, heavy taxes were imposed upon coffee, which proved to be a profitable source of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original International Bureau of the American Repub
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