The financial problem may be solved either by a diversion of local revenues, derived from taxes on coca and alcohol, or by borrowed foreign capital guaranteed by local revenues.
I had offered him a week's pay for two hours' work, and had put coca and cigarettes into his hands.
Only coca and brandy tempt him to engage in commerce, to toil now and then in the hot valleys, and to strive for more than the bare necessities of life.
Coca and potatoes are the chief products of the grassy mountain slopes; yuca, corn, bananas, are the chief vegetable foods grown on the tiny cultivated patches in the forest.
Moreover, because it yields the largest returns, the chief business of these whites is the sale of coca and brandy and the downright active debauchery of the Indian.
Moreover the eastern valleys are capable of producing things of greater utility than brandy and coca leaves.
Tradition has it that here were the imperial coca lands, that such of the forest Indians as were enslaved were obliged to work upon them, and that the leaves were sent to Cuzco over a paved road now covered with "montaña" or forest.
Paucartambo town, itself, once important for its commerce in coca is now in a sadly decadent condition.
He leaves behind him a promise and the rank mixed smell of coca and much unwashed woolen clothing.
The Indian fumbles his cap, shuffles his feet, and changes his coca cud from one bulging cheek to the other before he can answer.
The freight rate on coca and sugar for mule carriage, the only kind to be had, is two cents per pound.
The old and dilapidated coca terraces of the Quechuas above the Yanatili almost overlook the forest patches where the Machigangas for centuries built their rude huts.
Coca is widely distributed, likewise corn and barley which grow at higher elevations, and wool must be carried down to the markets from high-level pastures.
I also gave them coca and cigarettes, the two most desirable gifts one can make to a plateau Indian, and thereupon I thought I had gained their friendship, for they at last talked with me in broken Spanish.
The young plants are grown under shade and after attaining a height of a foot or more are gradually accustomed to sunlight and finally transplanted to the fields that are to become coca orchards.
Cocaine is a stimulant derived from the leaves of the coca bush.
Coca is not to be confused with cocoa, which comes from cacao seeds and is used in making chocolate, cocoa, and cocoa butter.
Coca (Erythroxylon coca) is a bush, and the leaves contain the stimulant cocaine.
Tea and coffee as therapeutic substitutes for coca and guarana.
With chuño and tostado, the body of the sheep, and a small quantity of coca leaves, the Indians professed themselves to be perfectly contented.
The possibility of raising sugar cane and coca between Huadquiña and Santa Ana attracted a few Spanish-speaking people to live in the lower Urubamba Valley, notwithstanding the difficult transportation over the passes near Mts.
Here, within a few hours' journey, they could find days warm enough to dry and cure the coca leaves; nights cold enough to freeze potatoes in the approved aboriginal fashion.
His first care was to have his coca breakfast, and to this he applied himself at once.
The coca is a small tree or shrub about six feet in height, which grows in the warmer valleys among the Andes mountains.
But thecoca not only supplies the Indian with a solace to his cares, it forms the chief article of his food.
When used to excess, the coca produces deleterious effects on the human system; but, if moderately taken, it is far more innocent in its results than either opium or tobacco.
His appetite, however, soon got the better of him; and he set to work to prepare his coca supper.
Forty-three years ago Johnston[163] wrote that even Europeans in different parts of Peru had fallen into the coca habit long practised by the Indians.
While coca took its place only recently among the toxic causes of degeneracy, it was old as a factor in the degeneration of the Peruvian long ere the discovery of America by Columbus.
A confirmed chewer of coca is called a coquero, and he becomes more thoroughly a slave to the leaf than the inveterate drunkard is to alcohol.
Current goals include attracting foreign investment, strengthening the educational system, resolving disputes with coca growers over Bolivia's counterdrug efforts, continuing the privatization program, and waging an anticorruption campaign.
May I also remind you here that Peru is the home of the Peruvian bark tree (cinchona) and the equally valuable coca plant, which gives us cocaine.
The statements as to the effects of coca are conflicting, as will be seen from what follows:--Sir R.
McBean, who states that he has found the administration of coca leaves useful in typhoid fever, as well as in other febrile diseases.
Good quality coca should have its leaves unbroken, of a medium size, bright green in colour, and of an odour somewhat combining that of hay and chocolate.
The consumption of Coca in Peru, Bolivia, and in some of the provinces of the Argentine Confederation is enormous.
You will find him at the Coca Tree every day of the week between two and four of the clock.
For all that, being mine own age, I feel the wilds of Wiltshire and the inns of Bruton to be a sorry change after the Mall, and the fare of Pontack's or the Coca Tree.
The cocaleaf is highly prized by the native as a stimulant; he chews it as a Northerner would chew tobacco but with a better excuse, since by its use he can perform great feats of endurance and go many hours without food.
The output of the cocales, or coca plantations, was nearly nine million pounds last year.
With his pouch filled with coca leaves and a small supply of parched Indian corn, he can run fifty miles a day, for these fleet-footed Indians constitute the telegraph system of this region.
There is still another name—coca—which is often confused with these, but coca is nothing like cacao.
Coca is the Peruvian plant from the leaves of which cocaine is extracted.
Together they descended the river Coca in search of the wondrous El Dorado, which, they had been told, was situated on the banks of a great river into which the Coca flowed.
Chemists throughout the world, recognizing the potent action of the coca leaf, were soon engaged in the effort of extracting its active principle.
An alkaloid from Java coca leaves, used as a local anesthetic.
Coca and cuca are South American words of Spanish origin and apply to the plant itself as well as to the leaves.
Chewing coca leaves is a habit which may be compared to the habit of chewing tobacco with the difference that the former is by far less injurious though there are good reasons to believe that it is far from harmless.
Wedell says an habitual coca chewer is known as coquero and is recognized by his haggard look, gloomy and solitary habit, listless inability, and disinclination for any active employment.
The same authority states further that the habitual use of coca acts more prejudicially upon Europeans than upon the Indians accustomed to it from their early years.
The dead of the South American Indians were always supplied with a liberal quantity of cocato enable them to make the long and fatiguing journey to the promised land.
According to Mariani, the young Indian on arriving at the proper age was sent to an old woman whose duty it was to instruct him and to invest him with authority to chew coca leaves.
After the passing of the Incas and after coca was more extensively cultivated all classes chewed the leaves.
Coca is now extensively cultivated in Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and other South American countries, particularly in the Andes region.
At the very outset I wish to state that cocais in no wise related to cocoa, a mistake which is very often made.
Coca thrives best in a warm, well-drained soil, with considerable atmospheric moisture.
Coca leaves have been used for many centuries by the natives of South America who employed them principally as a stimulant, rarely medicinally.
The fresh Coca leaves that we employ, after careful selection, come from three different sources and are of incomparable quality.
Nearly all of the soldiers perished, deprived, as they were of food and overcome by forced marches, except those who had taken the precaution to provide themselves with Coca leaves.
Bétancès has succeeded in acclimatizing Coca in the Antilles.
Coca is consumed chiefly in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil.
Thus, that which particularly characterizes these kinds of tumuli are the green splashes of Coca with which they are literally covered.
Mr. Angelo Mariani has spent many years in the careful study of the Coca plant, and as a result his preparations are unrivaled.
After this abstract of the well-known and recognized properties of Coca leaves, we will proceed to the medical study undertaken regarding this subject.
In those cases he specifies Mariani's extract of Coca leaves in preference to solutions of Cocaine, which sometimes give rise to symptoms of poisoning.
After a time, the owners of mines and plantations discovered its utility, in giving strength and courage to their Indian vassals; books were written in its defence, and anti-coca legislation speedily became obsolete.
Dr Tschudi does not think this an exaggeration, and calculates that three millions more have been sacrificed in the plantations, especially in the coca fields of the backwoods.
Some of these men had chewedcoca leaves from their boyhood upwards.
Although continued as a barbarous custom by the whites, some few of the latter are inveterately addicted to coca chewing, which they generally, however, practise clandestinely.
With his quid of dried cocaleaves in his mouth, he forgets all calamities; his rags, his poverty, the cruelties of his taskmaster.
Royal decrees were fulminated against coca chewing, and priests and governors united to abolish it.
The coca is considered by the Indians to be an antidote to the veta, and Dr Tschudi confirms this by his own experience.
This is the celebrated coca tree, the comforter and friend of the Peruvian Indian under all hardships and evil usage.
Previously to his hunting excursions in the upper regions of the Puna, he used to drink a strong decoction of coca leaves, and found it strengthening and a preservative from the effects of the rarefied atmosphere.
There can be little doubt that--like as tobacco is considered to preserve armies from mutiny and disaffection--the soothing properties of cocahave saved Peru from many bloody outbreaks of the Indian population.
Part of this district borders on the forests inhabited by independent Indians, and which contain great quantities of cocaor betel.
Those parts which consist of plains or valleys, are extremely hot, and produce great quantities of coca or betel, with which the neighbouring provinces are supplied.
The produce of this country is barley, cocaor betel, and papas.
In an island formed by the Tayacaxa or Xauxa grows the coca or betel nut in great plenty, in which, and with the lead produced in the mines, the commerce of Guanta consists.
That is to say, that colonists were sent from the cold and lofty plateau of the Collao to the warm and deep valleys of the Andes, where maize and coca can be cultivated.
He conquered some of the tribes, and ordered large plantations of coca to be cultivated for the supply of Cuzco, to which place he returned.
Orders were also given that mitimaes should go into the forests of the Andes to sow maize and to cultivate coca and fruit-trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coca" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
