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"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."

III. ITS MANUFACTURE.

UP to this point the operations described have taken place in the lands where cacao is

produced. To watch the further processes in its development as an article of food, let us in imagination follow one of the shiploads of cacao on its sea journey from the far tropics to one of the countries of the old world, until the sacks of beans are finally deposited at a cocoa factory. An English factory, that of Messrs. Cadbury,

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