[4] De Candolle, Origin of Cultivated Plants, quoted by R. Whymper.
[5] "Towards this latter result Messrs. Cadbury Bros., Ltd., rendered great assistance. This firm sent representatives into the country, who proved to the natives that they were willing to pay an enhanced price for cocoa prepared in a manner suitable for their requirements. A fair amount of cocoa was purchased by them, and demonstrations were made in some places with regard to the proper mode of fermentation." (The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa. Imperial Institute Handbook, by G.C. Dudgeon).
[6] The Gordian's estimate for the amount exported in 1919 is 40,766 tons.
[7] Robert Louis Stevenson was one of the pioneers in cacao planting in Samoa, as readers of his Vailima Letters will remember.
[8] Quoted from the New Age, where the Letters of Anthony Farley first appeared.
[CHAPTER V]
THE MANUFACTURE OF COCOA AND CHOCOLATE
The Indians, from whom we borrow it, are not very nice in doing it; they roast the kernels in earthen pots, then free them from their skins, and afterwards crush and grind them between two stones, and so form cakes of it with their hands.