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"I apologize for the coffee," said Mrs. Markham. "I have a suspicion that it is more or less bean, but the Yankee blockading fleet is very active and I dare any of you to complain." "Served by your hand, the common or field bean becomes the finest mocha," said Mr. Pegram, with the ornate courtesy of the old South.
The anchoring ground is shallow, but partly protected by a spur of hill, and the sea abounds in fish. Hais exports to Aden, Mocha, and other parts of Arabia; it also manufactures mats, with the leaves of the Daum palm and other trees. Lieutenant Speke was well received by one Ali, the Agil, or petty chief of the place: he presented two sheep to the traveller.
A moment later, the drawing-room door opened, and servants appeared bending under the burden of an enormous grand piano which was placed between the windows. At this sight, a tremor of delight ran through the group of young girls, while Octave, who was standing in one corner near the mantel, finished his Mocha with a still more melancholy air.
In the meantime smoking had commenced throughout the castle, but this did not prevent the smokers from drinking raki as well as the sober juice of Mocha. Four hundred men, armed with nargileh or chibouque, inhaling and puffing with that ardour and enjoyment which men, after a hard day's hunting, and a repast of unusual solidity, can alone experience!
Pouring out a cup of coffee, R held up the Norwegian wine-bottle of milk by its long neck, and said to P , "do you like a little, or a good deal, of milk?" "Oh! middling;" and moving from the window, P walked towards the table. "There," said R , pushing the cup across to P , "there's some real Mocha for you." P raised the cup to his lips. "Capital!" he exclaimed, taking breath after a long pull.
Whether they are there still or not, I cannot tell, or how many of them are left alive; but it is my opinion they are there still, and that they are considerably increased, for, as I hear, they have got some women among them, though not many; for it seems five Dutch women and three or four little girls were taken by them in a Dutch ship, which they afterwards took going to Mocha; and three of those women, marrying some of these men, went with them to live in their new plantation.
Eager to deliver you from the iron yoke of England, I hasten to request that you will send me, by the way of Mascate or Mocha, an account of the political situation in which you are. I also wish that you could send to Suez, or Grand Cairo, some able man, in your confidence, with whom I may confer.
Very little of the product ever passes outside of Turkey. All the Mocha coffee grown in Yemen would not much more than supply New York City. The pearl fisheries along the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf are also controlled by Arab traders. From there are obtained some of the finest pearls to be found, and also many tons of mother-of-pearl shells.
There is a great difference in the shape of the beans, which range between the broad flat Harar and the small, round, horny Mocha. I could obtain few details concerning the 'Black Devil Society, which suggests the old 'Know-nothings. It has been, they say, somewhat active in flogging strangers, especially Sá Leone men.
Even in Canada certain kinds of coffee plants are known. It is not, therefore, a wholly tropical plant. The Abyssinian coffee has been known from the earliest times." "What is regarded as the best kind of coffee?" "The best coffee of commerce is the Mocha, and next comes Java, and the principal coffee center of the world is Brazil."