CEYLON: CARTING CACAO TO RAIL to face 99

MAP OF CEYLON 99

" SAMOA 100

SAMOA, CLEARING FOR CACAO to face 100

MEXICAN GRINDING-STONE 104


[Illustration--Black & White Plate: Ceylon: A Hill Cacao Estate.]




"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."




I. ITS NATURE.


[Illustration--Drawing: "MAKE A CUP OF COCOA IN PERFECTION"]

When one thinks of the marvellously nourishing and stimulating virtue
of cocoa, and of the exquisite and irresistible dainties prepared from
it, one cannot wonder that the great Linnæus should have named it
_theo broma_, "the food of the gods." No other natural product, with