Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-01-16

each one of which sweeps gracefully outward
from the centre III gentle curve like the beau
riiui p.nnes Ut the grt Australian Fern, throw
ing out laterally great number of slender, del
Icate sprays, clad IN bright green foliage, the
leaves being ianceate, about an inch and hall
long, and three-fourths of inch wide at the
base OF the sprays, and diminishing gradually
to the extremities. The leaves are smooth as if
ligbly polished and vanished, very bright, and
being remarkably plant, feel like bit Of glossy
satin under the tugeis. The reason why l have
designated the Shrubs semi-deciduOus is, that
although it does shed It's foliage annually, the
Carao does not, like the deciduous trees and
shrubs strip itself stark naked every autumn.
The leaves rema.a on the sprays until pushed off
by their successors
The peculiar characteristic OF the Cacao, tha
which ma<es 1t . botanical curiosity, is Its sin-
1u!ar stimulating and celebrating properties,
the chewing OF single dried leaf producing
SENSATIONS very like the first pleasurable symp-
roDs after inhaling what ls usually termed
= laughing las, that nlon.ent oi glorious hap
plDess just before enc drops into utter uncon-
scious Bat unlike all other stimulants oil
every nature, The Cacao produced no mental OF
physical Instability, no INDUSTRIOUS hallucina-
tions. or unnatural excitement OF either miud or
u- c.e, 70 stupid torIUI, or subsequent disagree
dbc result. There Is an actual reality III the
vlI.ues oil the CacIo Leaf though IL does InVarl-
ably act ike charm. The mere chewing OF
two or three of the dried leaves, when ie
suffering with hunger, thirst and fatigue, Is al
most ike magic. Hunger Is banlshed, thirst
Ispel!sd, tie Sisckened nerves set up again,
4nd the whole physical system seems proof
agdius. tle ;ougn and tar Ut laborIoIs
,x-Tcise.
Now | do not pretend to claim that chewing
th1 tacao leaf wiil support i.le aud sustain Liam
IL Aealth, strength aud u7or, w!tnout food,
drink or rcst- Tee icea | wish 10 impsrt L..
.aa. tho use OF tie leaI IN the manner GoscrIi u
~ili ,rea ly odify the efecls produced by wan
OF tod, dIink ami Eest ami TO a reasonable ex-
en- compensate them for Us loss. Those woo
nave pever witalssed Its effects, would think II
most unreasonable perhaps.
4 Ii veter4n travellers through the South
American Pacific slopes, and all the various An
dean tribes Vt indians, ara familiar with the Ca
Gao ami It's properties, and inevitably carry with
them very carefully, Ia little sclps ,he precious
mateTl.i. IL Il also universally Kept at all the
mountain pdsodas, and very frequently at pri-
vate residencts, for gratultous ulstriputlOn 10
travellers who may cha-ce to require tiesa
SUI u.
n naa we were once prospecting among The
BOLIVIAN Auies, twj hundred and fifty miles or
more from th- c1a-t, We uSed 10 q patch our
mail 1y an ludlan runner, 10 COblJa-B)ivIa's
only IoT:-eyery week, anu any one OF oar cOur-
iers would soon have thought oi setting off
without hIs dried mutton. paTched coIn and CO.
cJ&. without his supply of Cacao.
oLs Ut the e Indian runners Viii start Oft at
daylight ou loPe, run perhaps twenty Iniies,
tuvn kinC.Iog mike i "a lire, pat INFO MS cop
por panakIu Three sPoousiul OF pounded cocoa,
pour II ilom bis water sAIn pint ot water, bOll
tie n4tOTIal Zen minutes, breakfast % II with
tIt y! drIad mutton aGd i han tiul Of parched
com, and shen through the day Cacao,
ach ewing s.xiy miles by sunses, when lie comes
70 hAie ior supper AID night lojglog-In "a
tree, OF under j.
That se-y nearly what the C.,cao is. and its
etfecs upon hGin 4nliy Saturday Eu 'sing Post.