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Their best drink was "coffa" and sherbet, which is only honey and water.

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Their best drink was "coffa" and sherbet, which is only honey and water.

Captain John Smith Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Their sit they, chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the

Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

"coffa", is in Captain John Smith's book of _Travels and Adventure_, published in 1603.

All About Coffee 1909

Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy

All About Coffee 1909

But it seemeth they were taken after several manners; for coffa and opium are taken down, tobacco but in smoke, and betel is but champed in the mouth with a little lime.

All About Coffee 1909

They have in Turkey a drink called _coffa_ made of a berry of the same name, as black as soot, and of a strong scent, but not aromatical; which they take, beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can drink it: and they take it, and sit at it in their coffa-houses, which are like our taverns.

All About Coffee 1909

1603 -- Captain John Smith, English adventurer, and founder of the colony of Virginia, in his book of travels published this year, refers to the Turks 'drink, "coffa."

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"Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their coffa-houses, which something resemble them.

Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 Various

He says of the Turks: "Their best drink is _coffa_ of

All About Coffee 1909