Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Address Before the Liberia Union Agricultural Enterprise Co
When coffee became somewhat a necessary of life in Europe, all the European powers which had colonies be tween the tropics endeavored to form plantations of coffee trees therein. The Dutch were the first who transported the coffee plant from Mocha to Batavia, and from Batavia to Amsterdam. An English merchant from Constantino ple first introduced coffee to the Londoners. Cromwell at tempted to suppress the use of this beverage in England, and caused the London coffee houses to be closed. Before the 18th century all the coffee consumed in Europe was brought from Arabia Felix, by the way of the Levant, and the Turkish government imposed heavy transit duties which the vessels of Holland, England and France at length avoided by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope.
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