Chapter 23 "Of Cacao and Coca"

Chapter 23 "Of Cacao and Coca"

The Cacao bean and its use in the Indies by the 16th century indigenous people of the Indies

"Natural and Moral History of the Indies" subtitled "Intreating of the Remarkable Things of Heaven, of the Elements, Mettalls, Plants and Beasts which are proper to that Country: Together with the Manners, Ceremonies, Lawes, Governments, and Warres of the Indians" is an ethnographical account of the people of the West Indies, written by Acosta, a Spanish missionary who came to the New World and lived there for approximately twenty years

Jose de Acosta, 16th century Spanish Jesuit missionary

"Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias," or "Natural and Moral History of the Indies"

Printed by Val: Sims for Edward Blount and William Alpley. London, 1604.

Written and published in Spanish in 1590. Translated into English, published in London, 1604.

Edward Grimestone, who translated the work into English

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John Ogilby's "America"

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English, originally written in Spanish

A 1604 English translation of an ethnography written in Spanish in 1590.

Ethnographical history of the Indies, describing its peoples, customs, habits etc.

Insight into the use of the cacao bean and its use in chocolate production and consumption

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Use of the cocoa bean in the West Indies in the 16th century.