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"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."
The Dutch East Indian produce is almost exclusively shipped to Amsterdam.
In the preceding pages extracts have frequently been culled from writers of the past: in the literature of the present day Charles Kingsleys graphic account of Trinidad and its cacao and sugar plantations in "At Last"
should be read in extenso. Another very interesting episode of modern date is the introduction of the cacao into the Samoan Islands in the Pacific by Robert Louis Stevenson. Writing to Sidney Colvin, on December 7, 1891, in one of his "Vailima Letters" he says:
"When I was filling baskets all Saturday, in my dull, mulish way, perhaps the slowest worker there, surely the most particular, and the only one that
