On such a date, at such a time, thecacao is to be gathered, is to be harvested and stored away.
No precise statistical data have reached us: we only know that the exportation of cacao from Caracas scarcely amounted, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, to thirty thousand fanegas a-year.
He adds, "the cacao is a prejudice (una supersticion) of the Mexicans, as the coca is a prejudice of the Peruvians.
The late wars have had much more fatal effects on the cacao trade of Caracas than on that of Guayaquil.
Everything seems smitten with sterility; scarcely are a few plants of cacao found on the banks of the Rio de Valencia; the rest of the plain is bare, and destitute of vegetation.
The proprietor of a plantation of fifty thousand trees often loses the value of more than four or five thousand piastres in cacao in one hour.
I never saw plantains of so large a size as these: and indigo, sugar, and cacao might be produced in abundance, if any trouble were taken for their cultivation.
Cacao : Cacavua* (* Has this word been introduced from a communication with Europeans?
Instead of mixing, as was done formerly for common chocolate, one quarter of the cacao of Caracas, with three-quarters of that of Guayaquil, the latter has been employed pure in Spain.
We discovered, that by eating small portions of dry cacao ground without sugar, and drinking a large quantity of the river water, we succeeded in appeasing our appetite for several hours.
Next to thecacao of Uritucu comes that of Guigue, of Caucagua, of Capaya, and of Cupira.
The following is recommended as an imitation:--Roasted cacao or chocolate nuts, 4 oz.
Each lozenge contains 1-3rd of its weight of purecacao butter.
Occurs in cakes of a yellowish colour, of a pleasant cacao odour.
In the above, by chocolate is meant the cacao beans roasted and pulverised without addition.
In India, a mixture of areca nut, betel leaf, and lime, performs the same duties; whilst in some other parts of the world preparations of the cacao are employed.
Butter of cacao and spermaceti in equal parts; melted together.
Stearine alone is, perhaps, a better substance than cacao butter for making suppositories.
Cortes greatly disapproved of his having exceeded his commands, and upbraided him severely in private, telling him that it betrayed a low disposition instantly to begin thinking of speculation in cacao plantations and breeding of cattle.
According to Torquemada, this word expressed the number 8000 of anything, whether of cacao beans, troops, or other matters.
Cacao nuts should be cacao beans; they were used by the Mexicans as small coin, and even to this day, according to Humboldt, they form the smallest coin among the inhabitants of New Spain.
Next the women dined, who superintended the baking department; and those who made the cacao liquor, with the young women who waited upon the monarch.
These were then followed, according to the Mexican custom, by the frothing jugs of cacao liquor; certainly 2000 of them, after which came different kinds of fruit in great abundance.
Motecusuma took great delight in these entertainments, and ordered the broken victuals and pitchers of cacao liquor to be distributed among these performers.
This is the process in all honest manufactories of the cacao products.
Now, as a matter of fact, in the preparation of many of the cacao products on the market, a wholly different course has been pursued.
The Mexicans not only used chocolate as a staple article of food, but they used the seeds of the cacao tree as a medium of exchange.
From this to the "Cacao Van Houten," is a far cry.
The cacaoit was agreed should be taken to Tortuga to be sold.
Thereupon Levasseur proposed that the Arabella and her prize should return to Tortuga there to unload the cacao and enlist the further adventurers that could now be shipped.
The cacao of Granada and Rivas is said to be amongst the finest grown, and there are many large plantations of it.
The wild cacao grows in the forests of the Atlantic slope, and when cultivated it still requires shade to thrive luxuriantly.
About here grows a species of cacao (Herrania purpurea) differing from the cultivated species (Theobroma cacao).
Cortes and Sandoval and all our other friends sent us presents of gold and cacao to bear our expences[3].
The bushes are usually found in small gardens, close to the houses; but so great is the native laziness that frequently the berries are allowed to decay, although the local cacao sells for a higher price than the imported.
Europeans first learnt to make a drink from cacao in Mexico, where the preparation was called chocolatl.
Hernandez found four kinds of cacao in use among the Axtecs, and he describes four varieties of drinks that were prepared from them.
In 1727 a hurricane destroyed at a single blast the important cacao plantation of Martinique, which had been created by long years of extraordinary care.
England consumes the cacao grown in its own colonies, although the duty (1d per lb.
Till the last few years, every household in the Philippines made its own chocolate, of nothing but cacao and sugar.
An almost equally dangerous foe to cultivation is a moth whose larva entirely destroys the ripe cacao beans; and which only cold and wind will kill.
Travellers in America say that a well-kept cacao plantation is a very picturesque sight.
In short, cacao plantations are only suited to large capitalists, or to very small cultivators who grow the trees in their own gardens.
One consequence of this state of things was that the free importation of cacao was permitted, and people were enabled to purchase Guayaqual cacao at fifteen dollars per quintal while that grown at home cost double the money.
Humboldt mentions thatcacao beans which have been transported over the chilly passes of the Cordilleras are never attacked by this pest.
Cacao of a very high quality is produced in Guatemala and the native article commands much higher prices than that produced in other countries and brought to Guatemala for sale.
The principalcacao producing districts are Escuintla, Suchitepequez, Solola, and Retalhuleu.
Cacao was cultivated with grand ceremonies and maize or Indian corn which was guarded with profound veneration because according to the ancient tradition man was formed from it.
The gathering of the cacao beans requires very little machinery and few laborers.
Notwithstanding the superior quality of the Guatemala cacao the industry has not been carried on systematically, possibly because five or six years are required to secure the first crop.
This experiment with hennequen is especially important in view of the fact that soil which is not suitable for coffee, sugar cane or cacao is thought to be especially well adapted to this plant.
Lindley is in error as to the discriminating duties--British cacaopays 9s.
Cacao fat, the butter-like substance obtained from the seeds of Theobroma cacao, is esteemed as an emollient.
The natives of Peru also bruize the beans of a species of wild cacao after they have been well dried, and use the substance instead of tallow in their lamps.
The date of the introduction of cacao into these Islands is confirmed by Juan de la Concepcion in his "Hist.
In the aspect of a cacao plantation there is nothing specially attractive.
Usually, the Philippine agriculturist rightly regards cacao only as a useful adjunct to his other crops.
The cultivation of cacao is an extremely risky and delicate business, as, often when the planter's hopes are about to be realized, a slight storm will throw down the almost-ripened fruit in a day.
We took on board a cargo of cacao in bulk, and sailed on our return to Salem.
Here we received a cargo ofcacao for the United States.
The relative weights of the various parts of a whole cacao pod are given thus by Prof.
Each fruit thus contains from 20 to 50 or more seeds, which constitute the raw cacao or "cacao beans" of commerce.
Cacao comes into bearing when about five years old, the small pink flowers and the succeeding large pods being borne directly on the trunk and main branches.
The production of cacao is small, and that of indigo and cotton is declining, the latter being limited to the requirements of small local mills.
Cacao bianco" and "pataste" are other names for this species.
Preuss, who has travelled extensively in the cacao producing countries of the world studying this crop, it is impossible to embody in a single table the characteristics of the world's varieties.
The value of cacao was appreciated in its native country before the discovery of America by Europeans.
Although it is found growing wild, cacao is cultivated to a limited extent, and the product is insufficient for home consumption.
Fermentation is not universally practised; the purple colour and bitter taste of unfermented cacao being wanted in some markets.
The cacao is now ready for shipment, and is usually packed in bags.
The common cacao tree is of low stature, seldom exceeding 25 ft.
Bags of cacao containing a specified number of beans were also a recognized form of currency in the country.
Cacao kernels were used as tokens andcacao plantations were entailed property.
The longest section of the book deals with the cacao tree, its fruit and the making of chocolate.
The dried bean is safe as an export, but the cacao tree has many enemies; and when the crop has come to ripening, in spite of threatened disease and destroying vermin, it may be ruined by a tempest in a single hour.
Special pains are taken with the cacao tree, which is planted in the orchards and gardens of the monasteries, and in the manufacture of the paste and in the making of the beverage.
These vicissitudes discourage the planter, who seldom tries to do more than secure enough of the cacao bean for family use.
Cocoa and chocolate are the product of the cacao tree, introduced early in the history of the islands by missionaries from Mexico.
The cultivation of the sugar-cane and of coffee will not be abandoned; but it will no longer remain the principal basis of national existence than the cultivation of cochineal in Mexico, of indigo in Guatimala, and of cacao in Venezuela.
If we add the harvests of the province of Caracas to those of Guayaquil, we find that the republic of Columbia alone can furnish nearly all the cacao annually demanded by Europe.
The cacao of Uraba is of excellent quality; and the Darien Indians sometimes come to sell it, with other productions, to the inhabitants of Rio Sinu, entering the valley of that river by one of its tributary streams, the Jaraguai.
Under bark of old cacao tree (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
Under debris in forest and debris under old cacao trees (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
In forest debris and debris under old cacao trees; it is not uncommon under dry leaves; it feigns death when disturbed (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
Males on low herbage under old cacao tree (Princis and Kevan, 1955).
This was a clearing in flat and rather swampy forest, about twenty acres in extent, and mostly planted withcacao and tobacco.
The use of chocolate is so universal in Mexico and throughout Spanish countries, that it might naturally be supposed the cultivation of cacao was largely and carefully attended to in the republic.
Cotton, sugar, tobacco and cacao are produced by its agriculturists, while on the coast large quantities of salt are made from the waters of the sea.
Among the trees were numbers of the broad-leaved plantain and banana, which had been planted to protect the young cacao trees from the heat of the sun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cacao" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
