PACKING-ROOM " 60

" SUGGESTION BOX 62

" LINDEN ROAD to face 63

" FISHING POOL " 64

" ALMSHOUSES " 67

SECTION OF A COCOA FACTORY (COLOURED) " 69

AMERICAN INDIAN WITH CHOCOLATE POT 71

NATIVE AMERICANS PREPARING COCOA to face 72

A CACAO PLANTATION 75

GRENADA: CACAO DRYING ON TRAYS to face 77

MEXICAN DRINKING-VESSELS AND WHISK 78

CACAO TREE, TRINIDAD to face 80

MEXICAN COCOA WHISK 83

WHITE'S COCOA HOUSE to face 87

CHART OF COCOA-PRODUCING COUNTRIES (COLOURED) to face 91

SACKS OF CACAO BEANS " 91

MARACAS VALLEY, TRINIDAD " 92

MAP OF TRINIDAD (COLOURED) " 95

" GRENADA, BRITISH WEST INDIES 96

CACAO ESTATE, GRENADA to face 96

MAP OF PRINCIPE 97

" S. THOME 98

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 Linnaeus should have named it
_theo broma_, "the food of the gods." No other natural product, with
the exception of milk, can be said to serve equally well as food or
drink, or to possess nou