 | 1790 - 566 Seiten
...and half-a-crown, about the fize of a billiard-ball, keeps them, they fay, in ftrength and fpirits during a whole day's fatigue, better than a loaf of bread, or a meal of meat. Its name in Arabia and Abyffinia is Bun, but I apprehend its true name is Caiié, from Caffa, the fouth... | |
 | James Bruce - 1804 - 560 Seiten
...composition, between the circumference of a shilling and half-a-crown, about the size of a billiard-ball, keeps them, they say, in strength and spirits during...fatigue, better than a loaf of bread, or a meal of meat. Its name in Arabia and Abyssinia is Bun ; but I apprehend its true name is Gaffe, from Caffa, the southern... | |
 | James Bruce - 1805 - 566 Seiten
...composition, between the circumference of a shilling and half-a-crown, about the size of a billiard-ball, keeps them, they say, in strength and spirits during...fatigue, better than a loaf of bread, or a meal of meat. Its name in Arabia and Abyssinia is Bun ; but I apprehend its true name is Gaffe, from Caffa, the southern... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1812 - 626 Seiten
...prize the beverage beyond all the strong liquors in the world. Experience has convinced them of its virtues, — perhaps they learnt them originally from...the coffee amounts to 732,000, and cloves to 540,000 ; the remaining items are cotton, corn, maize, garvanzos, and potatoes. The public revenue he estimates... | |
 | 1812 - 620 Seiten
...from some of their African slaves. The food which enables the Galla to traverse wide deserts, andfall suddenly upon the cultivated country of Abyssinia,...the coffee amounts to 732,000, and cloves to 540,000 ; the remaining items are cotton, corn, maize, garvanzos, and potatoes. The public revenue he estimates... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1812 - 628 Seiten
...traverse wide deserts, and fall suddenly upon the cultivated country1 of Abyssinia, consists only of balle of coffee mixed with butter : a lump of this composition,...estimates the total value of its agricultural produce at 1 ,430,800 dollars, of which the coffee amounts to 732,000, and cloves to 540,000 ; the remaining items... | |
 | John Lunan - 1814 - 568 Seiten
...can be pulverised, and then mixed with butter- into balls, and put into a leathern bag. One of these, about the size of a billiard ball, keeps them, they...fatigue, better than a loaf of bread, or a meal of meat. It was introduced into Aden, in Arabia, from Persia, by GemaledJin, only about the middle-of the fifteenth... | |
 | John Lunan - 1814 - 564 Seiten
...be pulverised, and then inMcecL with butter into balls, and put into a leathern bag. One of these, about the size of a billiard ball, keeps them, they...strength and spirits during a whole day's fatigue, l>etter than a loaf ef bread, or a meal of meat. It was introduced into Aden,- in Arabia, frond Persia,... | |
 | Philip Miller - 1835 - 632 Seiten
...ean be pulverized, and then mixed with butter into balls, and put into a leathern bug. One of these about the size of a billiard ball, keeps them, they...fatigue, better than a loaf of bread, or a meal of meat. CULTORE. — The Coffee tree is less cultivated in Jamaica than inBarbadoes, St. Domingo, and some... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 604 Seiten
...being rolled up in balls and put into a leathern bag. One of these, about the size of a billiard-ball, keeps them, they say, in strength and spirits during...fatigue, better than a loaf of bread or a meal of meat Be this """' " as it may, it is from Arabia that Europe first became acquainted with coffee ; and it... | |
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Abyssinia, consists only of balls of coffee mixed with butter : a lump of this composition, about the size of a billiard ball, keeps them, they say, in strength and spirits during a whole day's fatigue, better than a loaf of bread or a meal of* meat. 
