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"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."
IV. ITS HISTORY.
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| OLD DRAWING OF AN AMERICAN INDIAN, WITH CHOCOLATE-POT AND WHISK. |
ALTHOUGH now cultivated in many other tropical countries, the cacao tree is one of the New Worlds rich gifts, first made known to our ancestors by the venturesome Spaniards, who probably became acquainted with its cultivation early in the sixteenth century, and spread the knowledge derived from the Mexicans and the
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