[2079] Richard, Tentamen Fl. Abyss., p. 350.
[2080] An extract from the same author in Playfair, Hist. of Arabia Felix, Bombay, 1859, does not mention this assertion.
[2081] Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iv. p. 552.
[2082] Ellis, ubi supra; Nouv. Dict., ibid.
[2083] This detail is borrowed from Ellis, Diss. Caf., p. 16. In the Notices Statistiques sur les Colonies Françaises (ii. p. 46) I find: “About 1716 or 1721, fresh seeds of the coffee having been brought secretly from Surinam, in spite of the precautions of the Dutch, the cultivation of this colonial product became naturalized at Cayenne.”
[2084] The name of this sailor has been spelt in several ways—Declieux, Duclieux, Desclieux. From the information supplied me at the ministère de la guerre, I learn that de Clieu was a gentleman, and a connection of the Comte de Maurepas. He was born in Normandy, went into the navy in 1702, and retired in 1760, after a distinguished career. He died in 1775. The official reports have not neglected to mention the important fact that he introduced the coffee plant into the French colonies.
[2085] Deleuze, Hist. du Muséum, i. p. 20.
[2086] Not. Stat. Col. Franç., i. p. 30.
[2087] Ibid., i. p. 209.
[2088] Martin, Stat. Col. Brit. Emp.