cacaos

• “It rains again today without mercy; blessed, welcome rains, making up for the paucity of the late wet season; and when the showers slacken, I can hear my stream roaring in the hollow, and tell myself that the cacaos are drinking deep.”

  Vailima Letters

• “It does not seem to injure the cacaos in the least, and there are other kinds of trees it will take equally well to.”

  Travels in West Africa

• “Slaves must, however, have been at a discount just then, if the silver value of the beans was no greater than when Thomas Candish wrote in 1586: "These cacaos serve amongst them both for meat and money ... 150 of them being as good as a Real of Plate" -- about 6d.”

  The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa

• “The two principal cacaos are known as _Arriba_ and _Machala_, or classed together as Guayaquil after the city of that name.”

  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

• “On the morning of the sale samples of the cacaos are on exhibit at the principal brokers.”

  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

• “The cacaos of Trinidad and Grenada have long been known for their excellence, and it is mainly from Trinidad that the knowledge of methods of scientific cultivation and preparation has been spread to planters all round the equator.”

  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

• “All cacaos showed a substantial advance varying from 80 to 150 per cent. on pre-war values.”

  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

• “Kingdom of some of the more important cacaos before, during, and after the war.”

  Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer

• “When the bananas grow old, they should be carefully felled, lest the cacaos should be injured by their accidental fall.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

• “In one range of cacao trees a banana is placed between two cacaos, and an erythrina between the two following.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

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