Brazil is now celebrating a jubilee in honour of the Brazilian coffee bean. Long ago, coffee became a national drink in Brazil, where besides its aromatic qualities it is so cheap that is ix not included in the Dill when food is ordered in native restaurants.
But Brazil was not the birth place of coffee as far as ix known, An. old legend has it that it was dis. covered in Arabia by n herds who noticed that his goat were unusually yood-natured after eating the leaves on a curious bash, The-herdaman gathered some of the and mixed them and found that had a strengthening and_in"
ring influence upon him, That! Was supposed to have been the bee ginning. Very soon afterwards, coffee became popular in Europe, la andi Africa, and fa the 17th eet tury it was introduced to America.
In 1714 a deputation of Dutch merchants presented to Louis XIV of France some samples of a coffee frown in Java, These at-of the Pari. question of the place of origin of coffee began to create heated discussions, Some held that it came from Asia, others that it had ori minated in The latter
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