Chapter I: Front Matter

Appendices:

ANCIENT MANUFACTURE OF COCOA 103

BOURNVILLE WORKS SUGGESTION SCHEME 106

THE EARLY COCOA HOUSES 109

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS.

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EAST INDIAN COOLIES OF A TRINIDAD CACAO ESTATE
(COLOURED) frontispiece

CEYLON, A HILL CACAO ESTATE to face 1

"MAKE A CUP OF COCOA IN PERFECTION" (see p. 19) 1

CACAO TREES, TRINIDAD to face 3

ANCIENT MEXICAN DRINKING CUPS 4

"MOLINILLO," OR CHOCOLATE WHISK 5

CACAO HARVEST, TRINIDAD to face 7

THE COCO-NUT PALM 8

COCO-DE-MER 9

LEAVES AND FLOWER OF THE CUCA SHRUB 10

GATHERING CACAO: SANTA CRUZ, TRINIDAD to face 11

PURE DECORTICATED COCOA, MAGNIFIED 12

ADULTERATED COCOA, MAGNIFIED 13

HOW THE CACAO GROWS to face 17

CACAO CROP, TRINIDAD " 21

ANALYTICAL APPARATUS 20

CACAO PODS (COLOURED) to face 25

CACAO HARVESTING 25

CEYLON, NURSERY OF CACAO SEEDLINGS to face 27

SAMOA: CACAO IN ITS FOURTH YEAR " 29

YOUNG CACAO CULTIVATION WITH CATCH CROP " 30

PODS OF CACAO THEOBROMA 31

VARIETIES OF THE CACAO to face 32

THE HOME OF THE CACAO " 35

ORTINOLA, MARACAS, TRINIDAD " 36

GOULET AND WOODEN SPOON 37

CUTLASSES 37

CACAO DRYING IN THE SUN to face 39

LABOURERS' COTTAGE, CACAO ESTATE " 40

BASKETS OF CACAO ON PLANTAIN LEAVES 41

CACAO TREE AND SEEDLING (COLOURED) to face 43

BOURNVILLE: "THE FACTORY IN A GARDEN" " 45

" "ON ARRIVAL AT THE FACTORY" 45

" OFFICE BUILDINGS to face 47

" CRICKET PAVILION " 49

" GIRLS' DINING-HALL " 51

" BOOT-SHELF ON STOOL 53

" THE DINNER HOUR to face 54

" LABURNAM ROAD " 58

" PACKING-ROOM " 60

" SUGGESTION BOX 62

" LINDEN ROAD to face 63

" FISHING POOL " 64

" ALMSHOUSES " 67

SECTION OF A COCOA FACTORY (COLOURED) " 69

AMERICAN INDIAN WITH CHOCOLATE POT 71

NATIVE AMERICANS PREPARING COCOA to face 72

A CACAO PLANTATION 75

GRENADA: CACAO DRYING ON TRAYS to face 77

MEXICAN DRINKING-VESSELS AND WHISK 78

CACAO TREE, TRINIDAD to face 80

MEXICAN COCOA WHISK 83

WHITE'S COCOA HOUSE to face 87

CHART OF COCOA-PRODUCING COUNTRIES (COLOURED) to face 91

SACKS OF CACAO BEANS " 91

MARACAS VALLEY, TRINIDAD " 92

MAP OF TRINIDAD (COLOURED) " 95

" GRENADA, BRITISH WEST INDIES 96

CACAO ESTATE, GRENADA to face 96

MAP OF PRINCIPE 97

" S. THOMÉ 98

CEYLON: CARTING CACAO TO RAIL to face 99

MAP OF CEYLON 99

" SAMOA 100

SAMOA, CLEARING FOR CACAO to face 100

MEXICAN GRINDING-STONE 104

"THE FOOD OF THE GODS."