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Temperate
Beverages.
Arabia
and
countries
bordering
on
the
Red
Sea,
•where
it
is
much
cultivated.
It
is
also
now
grown
in
many
parts
of
the
world
which
admit
of
its
successful
cultivation.
Bruce
tells
us
it is
a
native
of
Abyssinia,
and
that
he
found
it
growing
wild
in
great
abundance
from
Cassa
to
the
banks
of
the
Nile.
The
story
told
of
its
introduction
is,
that
the
prior
of
an
Arabian
monastery,
being
informed
by
his
goatherd
of
the
effect
produced
on
the
goats
when
they
happened
to
browse
on
the
coffee-tree,
gave
an
infusion
of
the
berries
to
his
monks,
to pre-
vent
their
inclination
to
sleep,
which
frequently
in-
terfered
with
the
due
performance
of
the
nocturnal
prayers.
Another
account
is,
that
a
Mollah,
named
Chadely,
was
the
first
amongst
the
Arabians
who
made
use
of
coffee
to
relieve
himself
from
a
con-
tinual
drowsiness,
which
hindered
him
from
attend-
ing
punctually
to
his
nightly
devotions.
His
dervishes
did
the
same,
and
their
example
was
followed
by
the
lawyers,
and
others
who
had
no
occasion
to
keep
themselves
awake,
so
became
a
general
beverage.
That
its
introduction
is
of
a
modern
date
may
be
inferred
from
its
not
being
known
to
the
Romans
or
Greeks
;
neither
do
any
of
the
chroniclers
of
the
Crusades
make
mention
of
coffee.
It
was
in
use
in
Persia
during
the